Immingham Halt railway station

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Immingham Halt
Location Immingham, North East Lincolnshire
England
Coordinates 53°37′03″N0°10′35″W / 53.6175°N 0.1765°W / 53.6175; -0.1765 Coordinates: 53°37′03″N0°10′35″W / 53.6175°N 0.1765°W / 53.6175; -0.1765
Grid reference TA207149
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Central Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Key dates
May 1906opened for workmen's services as "Immingham Road"
3 January 1910upgraded to a publicly advertised halt, named "Immingham Halt" [1]
15 May 1912closed when the nearby Immingham Town opened [2]

Immingham Halt railway station was a temporary terminus serving people involved in building Immingham Dock, Lincolnshire, England. It was originally named "Immingham Road", but was renamed Immingham Halt when it was upgraded from an unadvertised halt for contractors' workmen to a publicly advertised station in 1910, though it appeared in Bradshaw as plain "Immingham". [3]

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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. [4]

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. [5] [6] Contractors obtained a rake of ex-Metropolitan Railway coaches [7] to run unadvertised workmen's services to match their shifts, using makeshift platforms. [8]

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 upgrading the termini to two unstaffed halts, each with a single 240 feet (73 m) wooden platform, 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] 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. [10] [11]

This is exactly what happened. The Great Central's 1904-built steam railcar [7] [12] [13] started to ply between the two termini on 3 January 1910 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; [14] the first to use the dock itself was the Swedish SS Max, also on 15 May 1912. [15]

The GDLR's line through Immingham Halt and Grimsby Pyewipe Road was used for four return special trains on the dock opening day, [16] 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.

Immingham East, an unbuilt neighbour

Immingham Halt was the nearest thing the village of Immingham has ever had to a conventional heavy rail station. Plans have been discovered for a station to be called Immingham East, which would have been a two-platformed island structure located on the Grimsby District Light Railway a short distance west of Immingham Halt, adjacent to the concrete road overbridge which carries Queens Road over the tracks to this day. The station was never built. [11]

Former Services
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Grimsby Pyewipe Road   Great Central Railway
Grimsby District Light Railway 		 Terminus

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Boulevard Recreation Ground electric railway station was the third of five calling points on the 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) eastern, "street" section of the inter-urban Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway when travelling from Corporation Bridge, Grimsby to Immingham Dock.

Jackson Street electric railway station was the second of five calling points on the 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) eastern, "street" section of the inter-urban Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway when travelling from Corporation Bridge, Grimsby to Immingham Dock.

Yarborough Street electric railway station was the first of five calling points on the 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) eastern, "street" section of the inter-urban Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway when travelling from Corporation Bridge, Grimsby to Immingham Dock.

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

Eastern Entrance to Immingham Dock electric railway station was a temporary halt 62 chains (1.2 km) by route south east of the western terminus of the inter-urban Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway which ran from Corporation Bridge, Grimsby with a reversal at what was euphemistically called Immingham Town.

References

  1. ↑ Quick 2009, p. 224.
  2. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 127.
  3. ↑ Bradshaw 1968, p. 645.
  4. ↑ Dow 1965, p. 231.
  5. ↑ King & Hewins 1989, Photo 24.
  6. ↑ Ludlam 2006, p. 420.
  7. 1 2 Price 1991, p. 61.
  8. ↑ Price 1991, p. 60.
  9. ↑ Bates & Bairstow 2005, Map, p.81.
  10. ↑ Price 1991, p. 62.
  11. 1 2 King 2019, p. 93.
  12. ↑ Mummery & Butler 1999, p. 101.
  13. ↑ Bates & Bairstow 2005, p. 86.
  14. ↑ King & Hewins 1989, p. 25.
  15. ↑ Dow 1965, p. 234.
  16. ↑ Dock opening special trains using the halt flickr

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