Immingham Western Jetty railway station was the first railway station which served the dock in Immingham,

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...

, England. It was replaced by

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 ...

History

was opened on 22 July 1912 by the

Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the ...

at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the

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 t ...

. 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 o ...

, , and surrounding villages to the dock the company built the

Barton and Immingham Light Railway The Barton and Immingham Light Railway is a railway line in North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. It ran from a junction at Goxhill to Immingham Dock. Another spur runs from Immingham Dock to Ulceby. It was lat ...

, which initially terminated at Immingham Western Jetty station, situated next to the ramp carrying lines onto the jetty itself. Workers coming from Grimsby and surrounds 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 running from Grimsby which had its own terminus named

. This stood on the opposite side of the dock's entrance lock gates. Immingham Western Jetty station had a single platform station built of wood. It had none of the usual facilities. The only structure other than the platform and fence was a wooden ticket collector's hut not dissimilar to those found at modern car parks. Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of , calling at East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham. The July 1922 Bradshaw shows the station still in use. At some point in or after 1922 the station was closed and replaced by the altogether more solid and permanent Immingham Dock station a short distance southeast, within sight of the dock's entrance locks. A photo of a locomotive at Immingham Dock station in Great Central Railway livery suggests that the handover took place in the early 1920s.

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The station site, west of Immingham Dock station, on a 1930s OS map
''National Library of Scotland''
The station
''Rail Map Online'' {{Closed stations Lincolnshire Disused railway stations in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1911 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1922 Former Great Central Railway stations Immingham