Grimsby Pyewipe Road railway station

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Grimsby Pyewipe Road
General information
Location Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
England
Coordinates 53°34′44″N0°05′42″W / 53.5790°N 0.0951°W / 53.5790; -0.0951
Grid reference TA262108
Platforms1 [1]
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Central Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Key dates
3 January 1910opened
15 May 1912closed when the nearby Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway opened [2]
Location
Grimsby Pyewipe Road railway station

Grimsby Pyewipe Road railway station was a temporary terminus serving people involved in building Immingham Dock, Lincolnshire, England.

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History

In 1906 Lady Henderson ceremonially cut the first sod to start the Great Central Railway's project to build Immingham Dock on an almost uninhabited, greenfield site on the south bank of the Humber. [3]

The location had no rail access and few of its roads were better than farm tracks, so the Great Central planned three railways to the new dock:

The GDLR was the first to reach Immingham, being used by contractors to ferry men and materials from and to Grimsby, including guests for the sod cutting. [4] [5] Contractors obtained a rake of ex-Metropolitan Railway coaches [6] to run unadvertised workmen's services to match their shifts, using makeshift platforms. [7]

This arrangement continued until the Great Central decided there was sufficient demand for a passenger service between Grimsby and Immingham Dock and village to justify building two unstaffed halts, each with a single 240 feet (73 m) wooden platform, [8] one at the Immingham end of the GDLR, to be known as Immingham Halt, and the other at the Grimsby end, to be known as Grimsby Pyewipe Road. [9] [10] The company would run a service along the line until the planned electric tramway - subsequently to be widely known as the Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway - opened. [11]

This is exactly what happened. The Great Central's 1904-built steam railcar [6] [12] [13] started to ply between the two termini on 3 January 1910 [14] and continued to do so until 15 May 1912 when the Barton and Immingham had been in business for a year, the Humber Commercial railway was completed and, most importantly for the service along the GDLR, the electric tramway opened, removing the reason for the temporary service.

The Dock was formally opened by The King on Monday 22 July 1912, though some traffic had been handled before then, the first of all being the Great Central steamer Dewsbury which was coaled from the Western Jetty on 17 June 1910; [15] the first to use the dock itself was the Swedish SS Max, also on 15 May 1912. [16]

The GDLR's line through Immingham Halt and Grimsby Pyewipe Road was used for four return special trains on the dock opening day, [17] after which it reverted to its intended goods and internal transfer role, which it retained in 2017, albeit on a much reduced scale.

By 2015 no trace of the station remained.

Former Services
Preceding stationDisused railwaysFollowing station
Terminus  Great Central Railway
Grimsby District Light Railway 		  Immingham Halt

References

  1. ↑ King 2019, p. 94.
  2. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 127.
  3. ↑ Dow 1985, p. 231.
  4. ↑ King & Hewins 1989, Photo 24.
  5. ↑ Ludlam 2006, p. 420.
  6. 1 2 Price 1991, p. 61.
  7. ↑ Price 1991, p. 60.
  8. ↑ Burgess 2007, p. 49.
  9. ↑ Bates & Bairstow 2005, Map, p.81.
  10. ↑ Mitchell & Smith 2017, Photo 106.
  11. ↑ Price 1991, p. 62.
  12. ↑ Mummery & Butler 1999, p. 101.
  13. ↑ Bates & Bairstow 2005, p. 86.
  14. ↑ Bradshaw 1968, p. 645.
  15. ↑ King & Hewins 1989, p. 25.
  16. ↑ Dow 1985, p. 234.
  17. ↑ Dock opening special trains using the halt flickr

Sources

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  • Burgess, Neil (2007). Lincolnshire's Lost Railways. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84033-407-4.
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