Immingham Dock railway station

Template:Passenger Lines of North East Lincolnshire Immingham Dock railway station served the dock at Immingham, Lincolnshire, England.

History

Immingham Dock was opened on 17 November 1913 by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the River Humber.

In order to get their workers from Kingston upon Hull, Barton upon Humber, New Holland and surrounding villages to the dock the company built the Barton and Immingham Light Railway, which terminated at the temporary Immingham Western Jetty railway stationTemplate:Sfn near to the curving embankment which carried trains up to the Western Jetty itself.

The temporary station lasted for some years. The July 1922 Bradshaw's Guide shows Immingham Western jetty as the line's terminus,Template:Sfn whilst a photograph of a locomotive in Great Central livery using the permanent replacement Immingham Dock stationTemplate:Sfn suggests the handover took place around 1922. The new station was nearer the dock gates.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Dock workers from the Grimsby direction were catered for by the Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway, an inter-urban tram system which also terminated at a station named Immingham Dock. Trains and trams at the two stations faced each other from opposite sides of the dock's entrance lock gatesTemplate:Sfn

The station had a single curving platformTemplate:Sfn with a run round facility and a small pagoda - style station building which housed the usual facilities. The platform was constructed in wood,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn later rebuilt with concrete supports.Template:Sfn Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of Goxhill, passing through East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham.

The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch on 17 June 1963 because a service which had been provided since at least 1954Template:Sfn via Ulceby was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trainsTemplate:Sfn to publicly timetabled passenger trains. These ran from Template:Rws, calling at Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws then non-stop via Habrough, at times coinciding with dock workers' shift changes.Template:Sfn This service was withdrawn on 6 October 1969 when the station finally closed.

On 7 October 1967 a RCTS railtour visited the station.Template:Sfn

By 2015 no trace of the station remained.

Former Services

Template:Disused Rail Start |- | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"| Killingholme | style="background:#Template:GCR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; border-left: 1px #aaa solid; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top:solid 1px #aaa; border-bottom:0px none;" | Great Central Railway
Barton and Immingham Light Railway
1913 - 1963 | style="background:#Template:GCR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 1px #aaa solid; border-right: 0px none; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"|Terminus |- | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"| Grimsby Town
Non-stop via Template:Rws | style="background:#Template:BR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; border-left: 1px #aaa solid; border-right: 1px #aaa solid; border-top:solid 1px #aaa; border-bottom:0px none;" | British Railways
1954 - 1969 | style="background:#Template:BR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   | rowspan="1" style="vertical-align: middle; text-align:center; border-left: 1px #aaa solid; border-right: 0px none; border-top: 1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;"|Terminus

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References

Sources

• Template:Bradshaw-1922July
• Template:Dow-GC3