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Immingham Dock railway station served the dock at Immingham, Lincolnshire, England. ==History== Immingham Dock was opened on 22 July 1912 by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the River Humber. In order to get their workers from Kingston upon Hull, , 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 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" 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, an inter-urban tram system which also terminated at a station named Immingham Dock. 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 The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch on 17 June 1963 with a service provided via which was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trains to publicly timetabled passenger trains. These ran from Grimsby Town via Habrough, usually at times coinciding with dock workers' shift changes. This single stop service was withdrawn six years later on 6 October 1969 when the station was finally closed. On 7 October 1967 a RCTS railtour visited the station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Immingham Dock railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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