Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station

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Killingholme Admiralty Platform
Level Crossing near to the site of Killingholme Admiralty Platform site.png
General information
Location North Killingholme, North East Lincolnshire
England
Coordinates 53°39′53″N0°14′51″W / 53.6648°N 0.2475°W / 53.6648; -0.2475
Grid reference TA158201
Platforms1 [1] [2]
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
17 March 1913opened [3]
17 June 1963Station closed [4]
Tickets to and from Killingholme (Admiralty Platform) station Killingholme Admiralty Platform Tickets.jpg
Tickets to and from Killingholme (Admiralty Platform) station

Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station, known locally as Admiralty Platform, was near North Killingholme Haven, Lincolnshire, England.

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The station was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1913 a later addition to the branch line from Goxhill to Immingham Dock, near both the former seaplane base at RNAS Killingholme and the Admiralty oil terminal at North Killingholme Haven.

Like its neighbour Killingholme, Admiralty Platform had a single, straight, wooden platform with minimal facilities. [5] [6] [7] These were still intact when a RCTS Special called four years after closure on 7 October 1967. [8]

The station was unusual in several respects:

and

The station closed on 17 June 1963 along with the other stations on the line.

When the line and station opened the area was rural and thinly populated. By 2015 the area round the former station had become industrial but remained thinly populated. The track through the station site was still in use for freight.

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
East Halton
Line and station closed
  London and North Eastern Railway   Killingholme
Line and station closed

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References

  1. Ludlam 2016, p. 9.
  2. King 2019, p. 89.
  3. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 263
  4. Butt 1995, p. 132.
  5. 1 2 King & Hewins 1989, Photo 38.
  6. Ludlam 1996, p. 42.
  7. Mitchell & Smith 2017, Photo 81a.
  8. Bates & Bairstow 2005, p. 79.
  9. Station not shown on 1947 OS map
  10. Allen 1958, p. 316.
  11. Ludlam 1996, pp. 46–7.
  12. Line GC160 omits the station, via Signalling Record Society
  13. Ludlam 1996, p. 45.
  14. Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 91.
  15. Ludlam 2016, Rear cover.

Sources

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