Darlington benefits from excellent road communications
with the A1(M) providing easy access to the North East and
to North/West Yorkshire. The town is also well served by the
national rail network sitting on the East Coast Line with travel
times of 2hrs 20mins to London and 2hrs to Edinburgh.
Darlington Train Station is just a 3 minute walk from DL1.
Darlington is the 7th fastest growing economy in the UK
Over £500 million of public and private sector investment has been
attracted into Darlington over the last 5 years
The Darlington Economic Campus supports the wider Places
for Growth programme which aims to move 22,000 civil service positions
which include the following departments:
• HM Treasury.
• Department for International Trade.
• Department for Education.
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
• The Office for National Statistics