(11 Jan 2015, 9:49 pm)Andreos1 wrote The northbound trains are heaving on a morning. The 072x EC is often crowded to the point standees are down the carriage.

It begs the question as to how they get in to Durham in the first place.

As I used to get that train from Darlington regularly, quite a lot of passengers walked to the station (20 mins for me), a few cycle,though I have to say Victoria Road would be busy with cars sometimes queuing to get into the portico to drop people off.

Although this was very much a peak time thing as the trains from Newcastle to Darlo during the day were quite quiet (excluding Fridays and Trans Pennine), even the 16:30 EC from Newcastle was dead (I once had a whole carriage to myself), but the trains after 5 were always busy from Newcastle.