Killingholme_Admiralty_Platform_railway_station

Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station

Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station

Former railway station in England

Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station, known locally as Admiralty Platform, was near North Killingholme Haven, Lincolnshire, England.

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Tickets to and from Killingholme (Admiralty Platform) station

The station was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1913 a later addition to the branch line from Goxhill to Immingham Dock, near both the former seaplane base at RNAS Killingholme and the Admiralty oil terminal at North Killingholme Haven.

Like its neighbour Killingholme, Admiralty Platform had a single, straight, wooden platform with minimal facilities.[5][6][7] These were still intact when a RCTS Special called four years after closure on 7 October 1967.[8]

The station was unusual in several respects:

  • although opened primarily to serve a naval base it was a public station, at least outside wartime
  • it evaded maps, including OS maps[9][10]
  • it evaded timetables[5][11]
  • it evaded Signalling Record Society records[12]

and

  • no tickets were thought to survive which show the station as a starting point, but an example has now been found, (see picture).[13][14][15]

The station closed on 17 June 1963 along with the other stations on the line.

When the line and station opened the area was rural and thinly populated. By 2015 the area round the former station had become industrial but remained thinly populated. The track through the station site was still in use for freight.

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References

  1. [1]
    Ludlam 2016, p. 9.
  2. [2]
    King 2019, p. 89.
  3. [3]
    Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 263
  4. [4]
    Butt 1995, p. 132.
  5. [5]
    King & Hewins 1989, Photo 38.
  6. [6]
    Ludlam 1996, p. 42.
  7. [7]
    Mitchell & Smith 2017, Photo 81a.
  8. [8]
    Bates & Bairstow 2005, p. 79.
  9. [9]
    Station not shown on 1947 OS map
  10. [10]
    Allen 1958, p. 316.
  11. [11]
    Ludlam 1996, pp. 46–7.
  12. [12]
    Line GC160 omits the station, via Signalling Record Society
  13. [13]
    Ludlam 1996, p. 45.
  14. [14]
    Croughton, Kidner & Young 1982, p. 91.
  15. [15]
    Ludlam 2016, Rear cover.

Sources

  • Allen, G. Freeman (June 1958). Allen, G. Freeman (ed.). "Day Trip to Grimsby: Part Two". Trains Illustrated. XI (117). Hampton Court, Surrey: Ian Allan.
  • Bates, Chris; Bairstow, Martin (2005). Railways in North Lincolnshire. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. ISBN 978-1-871944-30-3.
  • Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  • Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, R. W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-281-0. OCLC 10507501.
  • 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 978-1-870119-04-7.
  • King, Paul (2019). The Railways of North-east Lincolnshire, Part 2: Stations. Grimsby: Pyewipe Publications. ISBN 978-1-9164603-1-7.
  • Ludlam, A.J. (2016). Immingham - A Lincolnshire Railway Centre (Lincolnshire Railway Centres). Ludborough: Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Society. ISBN 978-0-9954610-0-0.
  • Ludlam, A.J. (1996). Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries. Headington: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-494-4. LP 198.
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2017). Branch Lines North of Grimsby, including Immingham. Midhurst: Middleton Press (MD). ISBN 978-1-910356-09-8.


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