Immingham Dock railway station served the dock at

Immingham Immingham is a town, civil parish and ward in the North East Lincolnshire unitary authority of England. It is situated on the south-west bank of the Humber Estuary, and is north-west from Grimsby. The region was relatively unpopulated and un ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

, England.

History

Immingham Dock The Port of Immingham, also known as Immingham Dock, is a major port on the east coast of England, located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary in the town of Immingham, Lincolnshire. In 2019, the Port of Grimsby & Immingham was the largest ...

was opened on 17 November 1913Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 249 by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the River

Humber The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal rivers Ouse and Trent. From there to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between th ...

. In order to get their workers from

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east ...

, , and surrounding villages to the dock the company built the Barton and Immingham Light Railway, which terminated at the temporary

Immingham Western Jetty railway station Immingham Western Jetty railway station was the first railway station which served the dock in Immingham, Lincolnshire, England. It was replaced by Immingham Dock. History Immingham Dock was opened on 22 July 1912 by the Great Central Railw ...

near to the curving embankment which carried trains up to the Western Jetty itself. The temporary station lasted for some years. The July 1922 Bradshaw's Guide shows Immingham Western jetty as the line's terminus, whilst a photograph of a locomotive in Great Central livery using the permanent replacement Immingham Dock station suggests the handover took place around 1922. The new station was nearer the dock gates. Dock workers from the Grimsby direction were catered for by the

Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway The Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway (G&IER) was an electric light railway, primarily for passenger traffic, linking Great Grimsby with the Port of Immingham in Lincolnshire, England. The line was built by the Great Central Railway (GCR), ...

, an inter-urban tram system which also terminated at a station named

. Trains and trams at the two stations faced each other from opposite sides of the dock's entrance lock gates The station had a single curving platform with a run round facility and a small pagoda - style station building which housed the usual facilities. The platform was constructed in wood, later rebuilt with concrete supports. Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of , passing through East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham. The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch on 17 June 1963 because a service which had been provided since at least 1954 via was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trains to publicly timetabled passenger trains. These ran from , calling at , and then non-stop via

Habrough __NOTOC__ Habrough ( ) is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England, north-west of Grimsby and inland from the River Humber at the southern edge of the A180 road, just west of Immingham and south of South Killingh ...

, at times coinciding with dock workers' shift changes. This service was withdrawn on 6 October 1969 when the station finally closed. On 7 October 1967 a RCTS railtour visited the station. By 2015 no trace of the station remained.

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