Hull Paragon Interchange

We spent a few hours at hull paragon interchange watching trains. Hull train is an end of line station managed by Transpennine Express. The station was a G.T Andrews design and was originally called Paragon Station. It was opened in 1847 as the new Hull terminus for the growing of Y&NMR and H&S Hull to Scarbourgh line.

Rail services

Hull Paragon is managed by TransPennine Express, serving mainly its North TransPennine route as well as multiple Northern Trains routes. Additional services are provided by Hull Trains and London North Eastern Railway.

TransPennine Express operates a Monday-Saturday service of one train per hour to and from Manchester Piccadilly via Leeds, and one early morning train to Manchester Airport per day. Direct services to and from Manchester are less frequent after 7pm. In May 2017, a later direct service to Manchester Piccadilly was introduced. On Sunday, a similar service runs at a reduced frequency (approximately every one to two hours), starting later and finishing earlier, with no direct service to Manchester Airport.[95][96][97] All services are operated by their Class 185 Desiros.

Northern Trains's weekday service consists of two trains per hour from Hull to Bridlington, made up of one semi-fast service and one stopping service, with one service per hour continuing through to Scarborough. Northern also operates one fast service per hour to Sheffield via Goole plus a second local stopping train each hour to Doncaster and hourly to both York and Halifax via Leeds. At peak times there are additional services between Hull and Beverley, that stop at Cottingham. Weekend running is similar, but with reduced frequencies on some routes and all services finishing earlier. Most fast services from Sheffield call at Hull before continuing to Scarborough, although some timetables show these services as separate rather than continuous.[98] All services are typically operated by a mixture of Class 150 Sprinters, Class 155 Sprinters and Class 158 Express Sprinters.

Hull Trains operates a weekday service of seven trains in each direction to London King's Cross. At weekends this service is reduced, with 6 trains on Saturday, and 5 on Sunday. However, Sunday services were be increased to 6 trains in each direction from December 2017. Every day one train to London starts at Beverley progressing onto Hull in the early morning, with one late night train from London terminating at Beverley after Hull.[99][97] All services are currently operated by Class 802 Paragons.

London North Eastern Railway operates one train per day Monday-Saturday in each direction between Hull and London King's Cross, with the morning service departing Hull at 06:58 and the evening service arriving at 20:05 in Hull, from where it then returns to Doncaster. On Sundays, there is no morning departure with only an evening arrival from London.[100] Each service is operated by a Class 800 Azuma