Teeside Metro 3: Thinking ideal worldly

Adding on from the last post; what if we were to try and make a 'real metro' in the Middlesbrough area?
This is of course purely ideal world, blue sky thinking and is never going to happen but nonetheless....

This proposed greenline will aim to link in the suburbs of Middlesbrough/Stockholm which would otherwise be without rail transport and such is using new lines. These lines however are all above ground with there being no immediate need for tunneling.

Inglesby Barwick

The line will start/end somewhere around this large estate in the south west. Depending how extreme we want to be there could be two stations; one towards Yarm on the south end of the estate then one more towards the north east of it; or just the one station, likely located on the east.
It could even be that we may need three stations with two on the east or just two stations on the east. This is a large estate surrounded by a fields.
I will be going with the simplest, one station option with the station placed towards Ingleby Way.

South Thornaby

Cutting along by the A174 between Thornaby and the industrial estate we have a good location for another station. Its very far from Thornaby station proper.

Hemlington

After a large greenfield area we then reach Hemlington/Acklam. I would plan to cut between the two following the A174's green shoulder to avoid having to do any tunneling through built up areas.

Acklam

I would place the next station east of St.Mary's college after some major golf course avoision. This station again has a large residential capture area and is far from the railway line proper.

After Acklam we then head east to join the mainline just south of the proposed hospital station. We then follow this up through the city centre and westwards until we reach the northbound part of the journey....

Hartburn

With the Fairfield route we have two possible alternatives.
1: Loop around the western edge of the estate.
2: It seems there is a disused railway alignment (currently sans tracks) running right through the centre of the built up area. If we could follow this catchment would be amazing.

I will assume 2 is possible (this is ideal world thinking afterall) though 1 would not be too much different.

The Hartburn station would be located not far east of the primary school. Around Ingleby Grove looks good.

Fairfield

We have a big enough area next that I would ideally place two stations, a south and north Fairfield. Lanark Close and Premier Road perhaps for rough locators?

Hardwick

Right on the edge of the estate we have our final staiton, Hardwick. Again to describe location I will say 'near the primary school'.

Again apologies for the ugly as sin map, I'm really not in a mood for trying to make something 'proper' and nice looking at the moment, especially for a side-interest. Maybe in the future.