Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station

Killingholme Admiralty Platform
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
Platforms	1 [1] [2]
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
17 March 1913	opened [3]
17 June 1963	Station closed [4]
Location

Tickets to and from Killingholme (Admiralty Platform) station

v t e Passenger lines of North East Lincolnshire
Legend
Hull Corporation Pier Barton- on-Humber Humber Ferry Barrow Haven New Holland Pier New Holland engine shed New Holland Town New Holland Goxhill East Halton Killingholme Admiralty Platform Thornton Abbey Killingholme Thornton Curtis Immingham West Jn Humber Road Jn Immingham Western Jetty Ulceby Aerodrome Platform Eastfield Road Ulceby North Jn Immingham Dock Ulceby Dock Entrance Immingham engine shed Immingham Eastern Jetty Immingham Queens Road Immingham Dock Immingham Town Eastern Entrance to Immingham Dock Sheffield– Lincoln line & South Humberside Main Line Immingham Halt Habrough Kiln Lane Stallingborough Marsh Road LC Healing No.5 Passing Place Great Coates Great Coates LC Pyewipe Depot Halt Pyewipe car sheds Cleveland Bridge Grimsby Pyewipe Road West Marsh Jn East Marsh Jn Cleveland Street Stortford Street Grimsby Town Boulevard Recreation Ground East Lincolnshire Rlwy to Boston Jackson Street Grimsby engine shed Yarborough Street Grimsby Docks Corporation Bridge Grimsby Pier Riby Street Platform New Clee Cleethorpes Kingsway (CCLR) Discovery Lakeside Central North Sea Lane Humberston North Sea Lane Beach South Sea Lane Lincolnshire Coast Lt Rly 1960–1985

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

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:

• although opened primarily to serve a naval base it was a public station, at least outside wartime
• it evaded maps, including OS maps ^{[9] [10]}
• it evaded timetables ^{[5] [11]}
• it evaded Signalling Record Society records ^[12]

and

• no tickets were thought to survive which show the station as a starting point, but an example has now been found, (see picture). ^{[13] [14] [15]}

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

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. 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

• Allen, G. Freeman (June 1958). Allen, G. Freeman (ed.). "Day Trip to Grimsby: Part Two". Trains Illustrated . XI (117). Hampton Court, Surrey: Ian Allan.
• Bates, Chris; Bairstow, Martin (2005). Railways in North Lincolnshire. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. ISBN   978-1-871944-30-3.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, R. W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places. The Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-281-0. OCLC   10507501.
• King, Paul K.; Hewins, Dave R. (1989). Scenes from the Past: 5 The Railways around Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham and North-east Lincolnshire. Stockport: Foxline Publishing. ISBN   978-1-870119-04-7.
• King, Paul (2019). The Railways of North-east Lincolnshire, Part 2: Stations. Grimsby: Pyewipe Publications. ISBN   978-1-9164603-1-7.
• Ludlam, A.J. (2016). Immingham - A Lincolnshire Railway Centre (Lincolnshire Railway Centres). Ludborough: Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Society. ISBN   978-0-9954610-0-0.
• Ludlam, A.J. (1996). Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries. Headington: The Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-494-4. LP 198.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2017). Branch Lines North of Grimsby, including Immingham. Midhurst: Middleton Press (MD). ISBN   978-1-910356-09-8.

External links

• Railtour visit 6 October 1967 Six Bells Junction
• Services from New Holland not showing the station Disused Stations UK
• The station not on a 1930 OS map National Library of Scotland
• The station not on a 1948 OS map npe maps
• The station not on a 1953 OS map National Library of Scotland
• The station not on a 1961 OS map National Library of Scotland
• The station Rail Map Online
• The station and section of line railwaycodes
• The station on a 1941 aerial photo at p28 National grid
• Aerial image of the station taken in 1930 Britain from Above (free login needed to zoom)
• Aerial image of the station taken in 1930 Britain from Above (free login needed to zoom)