What £12m Hartlepool rail station improvements will mean for Grand Central services

🚧 Big progress at Hartlepool Station! Steel for the new lifts and footbridge to the second platform is up, and that means much-needed extra capacity being unlocked. We’ve already seen what a difference this will make with Northern Rail committing to more services locally because of the our £12m transformation of Hartlepool Station. Great to see our plan coming together! 💪 | Ben Houchen - Tees Valley Mayor

🚉 MILLIONS FOR HARTLEPOOL STATION UPGRADE AND SECOND PLATFORM 🚉 It was great to visit Hartlepool Railway Station this afternoon with Hartlepool Council Leader Shane Moore to announce the next stage of our redevelopment work at the station Hartlepool railway station is the busiest single platform station in the UK and the third-biggest station in the region, welcoming 650,000 passengers per year. With this £1.5 million we can bring the old second platform back into use, improving rail transport