There is an hourly service from the station in each direction (with a few peak hour extras), northbound to Sunderland and Newcastle and southbound to Middlesbrough. Many northbound trains continue to Hexham, whilst certain southbound trains run through to Nunthorpe.[6]
On Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction between Middlesbrough and MetroCentre, plus two additional services between Darlington and MetroCentre that avoid Middlesbrough using the original 1852 link via Stockton Cut Junction. These are the last remnants of the much more frequent direct service (approx two-hourly Mon-Sat plus some Sunday trains) that ran between Darlington & Hartlepool up until 1991.
