Talk:Middlesbrough railway station

London Service
I have removed the statement that Middlesbrough is the biggest town in the UK without a direct rail link according to http://www.lovemytown.co.uk/Populations/TownsTable1.htm

Bigger towns than Middlesbrough in this table are: Reading (on the Great Western Main Line - Does have London Link)

DUDLEY (HAS NO RAILWAY STATION AT ALL! - There are stations called Sandwell and Dudley and Dudley Port but neither of this are in the Dudley town boundary)

Northampton (on the West Coast Main Line - Does have London Link)

Luton (on the Midland Main Line - Does have London Link)

Milton Keynes (on the WCML - has London Link)

WALSALL (has a connection at Tame Bridge Parkway which is, like Dudley Port, not in Walsall's town boundary. Additionally, Walsall station itself has no link)

Bournemouth (on the SWT network - has a link to Waterloo)

Southend (has a London Link to Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street)

Swindon (on the GWML - has London Link)

HUDDERSFIELD (no link of any kind exists to Huddersfield.)

Poole (on the South West Trains network - has London link to Waterloo)

Thus, Middlesbrough is the fourth biggest town in the country not to have a direct railway link to London.

Calling point?
Under Services we have this:

"The Tees Valley Line from Bishop Auckland & Darlington to Saltburn (calling point)."

What exactly does "calling point" mean here? I assume it is some specialist use which is unique to that route, as it's not used on the others in that section? Do we need to explain it for the benefit of, er, people like me? Thanks DBaK (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh well, after 1.5 years without a reply, I am going to act amazingly precipitately and boldly and remove it. Either it was wrong, in which case fine, or if someone wants it back in maybe they will explain it? Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 08:12, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Overall roof
In the History section, we have this: "It featured an ornate overall roof, short in length, narrow in width, high in relation." I don't quite follow this - what was high in relation to what else? Can it be clarified a bit, please? Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 08:04, 20 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Does anyone know the dimensions for this structure ? Anorakery (talk) 21:48, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ - this was resolved at some time in the last ~8 years. Thanks, whoever dunnit! DBaK (talk) 07:18, 16 May 2019 (UTC)