Heighington is a railway station on the Tees Valley Line, which runs between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington.

The station, situated 5 miles 62 chains (9.3 km) north-west of Darlington, serves the villages of Aycliffe and Heighington in County Durham, England.

[3] The station has kept its listed manual signal box (which supervises the aforementioned crossing, the connection into the Hitachi plant and the single line section south of here through to Darlington), but this had its semaphore signals replaced by colour lights when the connection into the Hitachi factory was installed and commissioned in November 2014.

[9] The grade II listed signal box was opened in 1872 and was originally commissioned by the North Eastern Railway Central Division.

The building fits the earliest Central Division design, which the Signalling Study Group classified as Type C1.

[6] On the opposite side of the railway line are the Grade II* listed original station buildings dating from around 1826-27.

The buildings no longer form part of the modern station and the pub, called the Locomotion Number 1, closed in 2017.

After the failure of rescue attempts by local authorities, the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway launched a fund-raising campaign to purchase and restore the station.

[17] Work commenced on the £82 million facility in March 2014 and it was officially opened on 3 September 2015 by UK Prime Minister David Cameron.