New Holland Pier railway station is a former railway terminus in

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, England. It stood at the seaward end of the New Holland

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, which juts northwards into the

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at the village of New Holland. Its purpose was to enable railway passengers, vehicles and goods to transfer to and from

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plying between New Holland and Hull. New Holland was a "railway village" in the sense that

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was a

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. Expanding the dock, building the pier, the

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and the railway to it were promoted and started by the

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, though by the time services began that railway had merged with others to form the

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. For many years GCR laundry from restaurant cars and hotels was brought to New Holland for cleaning.

History

The station opened on 1 March 1848 following a Directors' tour of the ferry and route as far as Louth the day before. Services in the early days were a mix of local and long distance. The line was seen as the gateway to Hull, with transshipment of people and goods being a mere inconvenience. Before long lines reached Hull via Doncaster, so passengers and railways alike realised that longer could be quicker and more convenient. After this the pier and railway eventually settled down to providing local services across the Humber. These were: Ferry from Hull to New Holland Pier then train: * to Barton-on-Humber * to

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via

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, and, from 1911 * to

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The Immingham service ceased in 1963, but the other two survived until 1981. A severe storm on 18–19 October 1869 damaged the pontoon at the end of the pier so badly that it sank. On Sunday 13 January 1895 the pier and station at New Holland were destroyed by fire. It was later rebuilt. New Holland P 5 76435 1

From 1923 the pier and station were closed for reconstruction, reopening on 19 March 1928. The station gave the appearance of having two platforms with a siding between, but the western "platform" was a wooden roadway used by vehicles to and from ferries, passengers used the true platform on the eastern side of the pier. The central siding often contained one or two coal wagons from which a small road 'train' of tubs was loaded and taken down the access ramps to ferry steamers. Originally the station had an overall roof but this was later removed. The station buildings were made of wood and included a signal box and refreshment rooms on the more substantial eastern side. Average annual traffic using the pier in its peak years was 30,000 passengers, 250 vehicles, 1200 cattle and sheep and 300 tons of luggage. Until the end of the Second World War, railway publicity, tickets and timetables rarely differentiated between the Town and Pier stations, with the July 1922 Bradshaw, for example, giving a single entry for "New Holland." The station was closed and the ferry withdrawn on 24 June 1981 when the Humber Bridge opened. New Holland pier was taken over by New Holland Bulk Services who started a grain and feed import and export business in 1984. When the station and the nearby station were closed they were replaced by a new station called , south of the latter. This is on the Barton Line which runs between and .

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