East Halton railway station

East Halton
Location
Place	East Halton
Area	North East Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°40′09″N 0°16′31″W / 53.6691°N 0.2752°W / 53.6691; -0.2752Coordinates: 53°40′09″N 0°16′31″W / 53.6691°N 0.2752°W / 53.6691; -0.2752
Grid reference	TA140205
Operations
Original company	Barton and Immingham Light Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2[1]
History
1 May 1911[2]	Station opened
July 1956	Station became an unstaffed halt[3]
17 June 1963	Station closed
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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 Immingham Western Jetty Ulceby Aerodrome Platform Humber Road Jn 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 to 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

East Halton railway station was located on Skitter Road north of East Halton, Lincolnshire, England.^[4][5]

The station was built by the Barton and Immingham Light Railway under the auspices of the Great Central Railway.^[6] The line's primary purpose was to enable workers to get to and from Immingham Dock which was being built at the time the line was opened. The typical journey time to the dock was fifteen minutes.^[7]

The station was the only one on the line built with two brick faced platforms,^[3] though the second track and platform were removed in later years.^[8] In 1954 the platform facilities consisted of a seat, a corrugated iron shelter a station sign reading East Halton Halt and two lamps.^[9][10][11]

Shortly after closure the track was lifted for about 100 yards from the junction at Goxhill, leaving the line through the station as a long siding which was sometimes used to store redundant wagons.^[12] Some time later the track was lifted through the station almost to Killingholme Admiralty Platform. In 2015 the line of route was still plain to see.

References

Sources

• Bates, Chris; Bairstow, Martin (2005). Railways in North Lincolnshire. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1 871944 30 9. 
• Bradshaw, George (1985) [1922]. July 1922 Railway Guide. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. 
• Burgess, Neil (2007). Lincolnshire's Lost Railways. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing. ISBN 184033407X. 
• Anon (2011). British Railways Atlas 1947: The Last Days of the Big Four. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0711036438. 
• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900-1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0263-0. 
• Jackson, David (1996). J. G. Robinson, A Lifetime's Work. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 497 0. OL98. 
• 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 1 870119 04 5. 
• Ludlam, A.J. (2016). Immingham - A Lincolnshire Railway Centre (Lincolnshire Railway Centres). Ludborough, Lincolnshire: Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Society. ISBN 0995461007. 
• Ludlam, A.J. (1996). Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 494 6. LP 198. 
• Quayle, H.I. (October 1981). Slater, J.N, ed. "Boat Train to the Humber". The Railway Magazine. London: Tothill Press Ltd. 127 (966). ISSN 0033-8923. 
• Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012). Railway Atlas Then and Now. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6. 

External links

• Services from New Holland via Disused Stations UK
• The station on a 1930 OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station on a 1948 OS map via npe maps
• The station via Rail Map Online
• The station and section of line via railwaycodes
• Two photos of the station via yccrp