Chester-le-Street is a railway station on the East Coast Main Line, which runs between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley.

The Team Valley Line of the North Eastern Railway, which connected Newton Hall Junction, near Durham, with Gateshead was authorised in 1848.

[2] In the 1960s, the station was listed for closure as part of the Beeching Axe,[3] which led to it being mentioned in the song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann.

The station's ticket office, waiting area and toilets were staffed six days per week, prior to the building's closure in early 2018.

Following the May 2021 timetable change, there are three trains per day (Monday to Saturday) heading north towards Newcastle, two of which extend to Carlisle via Hexham.