Ulceby railway station serves the village of

Ulceby, North Lincolnshire Ulceby is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north from the A180 road (England), A180 road, north-west from Grimsby and east from Scunthorpe. Ulceby is a rural village surrounded by fields, farms and th ...

near

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 ...

North East Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire is a Unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England. It borders the borough of North Lincolnshire and districts of West Lindsey and East Lindsey. The population of the district in the 2011 Census was ...

, England. It was built by the

Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway The Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway was an early British railway company which existed between 1845 and 1847 with the intention of providing rail services between Grimsby, New Holland and Gainsborough in the county of Lincolnshire. ...

in 1848 and is located at

Ulceby Skitter Ulceby Skitter is a hamlet in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than north-west from the Brocklesby Interchange of the A180 road, and west from Immingham.East Midlands Railway Abellio East Midlands Limited, trading as East Midlands Railway (EMR), is a train operating company in England, owned by Abellio, and is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise. History In March 2017, the Department for Transport a ...

and served by its trains on the Barton line between

Cleethorpes Cleethorpes () is a seaside town on the estuary of the Humber in North East Lincolnshire, England with a population of 38,372 in 2020. It has been permanently occupied since the 6th century, with fishing as its original industry, then develo ...

and Barton-on-Humber. The station layout is somewhat unusual in that all passenger trains use a single platform, even though the station is located on a double track line. There are junctions at either end of the station, as the branch line from

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to Barton-on-Humber meets and then diverges from the busy freight-only line from to

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. These junctions, and the adjacent

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were controlled from Ulceby Junction

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at the southern end of the station, however this was demolished in January 2016 when the crossing and signals were automated. The station originally had two platforms but this was altered to a single wooden platform when the line was resignalled in the 1980s.

Services

All services at Ulceby are operated by

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using Class 156

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. The typical Monday-Saturday service is one train every two hours between and . There is a Sunday service of four trains per day in each direction during the summer months only. There are no winter Sunday services at the station. Services were previously operated by

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but transferred to East Midlands Railway as part of the May 2021 timetable changes.May Milestone for MML Timetable ''

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'' issue 872 May 2021 page 23

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{{Lincolnshire railway stations Railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Former Northern franchise railway stations