Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station

Killingholme Admiralty Platform
Location
Place	North Killingholme
Area	North East Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°39′53″N 0°14′51″W / 53.6648°N 0.2475°W / 53.6648; -0.2475Coordinates: 53°39′53″N 0°14′51″W / 53.6648°N 0.2475°W / 53.6648; -0.2475
Grid reference	TA158201
Operations
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1[1]
History
between 1923 and 1930	Station opened by the LNER
17 June 1963	Station closed[2]
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Passenger Lines of North East Lincolnshire
Legend
Hull Corporation Pier Barton- on-Humber Humber Ferry Barrow Haven New Holland Pier New Holland engine shed New Holland Town New Holland Goxhill East Halton Killingholme Admiralty Platform Thornton Abbey Killingholme Thornton Curtis Immingham West Jn Immingham Western Jetty Ulceby Aerodrome Platform Humber Road Jn Ulceby North Jn Immingham Dock Ulceby Dock Entrance Immingham engine shed Immingham Eastern Jetty Immingham Queens Road Immingham Dock Immingham Town Eastern Entrance to Immingham Dock Sheffield to Lincoln Line & South Humberside Main Line Immingham Halt Habrough Kiln Lane Stallingborough Marsh Road LC Healing No.5 Passing Place Great Coates Great Coates LC Pyewipe Depot Halt Pyewipe car sheds Cleveland Bridge Grimsby Pyewipe Road West Marsh Jn East Marsh Jn Cleveland Street Stortford Street Grimsby Town Boulevard Recreation Ground East Lincolnshire Rlwy to Boston Jackson Street Grimsby engine shed Yarborough Street Grimsby Docks Corporation Bridge Grimsby Pier Riby Street Platform New Clee Cleethorpes Kingsway(CCLR) Discovery Lakeside Central North Sea Lane Humberston North Sea Lane Beach South Sea Lane Lincolnshire Coast Lt Rly 1960–1985

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

The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway at some time between 1923 and 1930 as 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.^[3][4] These were still intact when a RCTS Special called four years after closure on 7 October 1967.^[5]

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^[6][7]
• it evaded timetables^[3][8]
• it evaded Signalling Record Society records^[9]

and

• no tickets are known to survive which show the station as a starting point.^[10][11][12]

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.

References

Sources

• Allen, G. Freeman (June 1958). Allen, G. Freeman, ed. "Day Trip to Grimsby: Part Two". Trains Illustrated. Hampton Court, Surrey: Ian Allan Ltd. XI (117). 
• Bates, Chris; Bairstow, Martin (2005). Railways in North Lincolnshire. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. ISBN 1 871944 30 9. 
• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, Roger Wakely; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places. Catrine, Ayrshire: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-281-1. OCLC 10507501. X43. 
• 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 1 870119 04 5. 
• Ludlam, A.J. (2016). Immingham - A Lincolnshire Railway Centre (Lincolnshire Railway Centres). Ludborough, Lincolnshire: Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Society. ISBN 0995461007. 
• Ludlam, A.J. (1996). Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries, LP 198. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 494 6. 

External links

• Railtour visit 6 October 1967 via Six Bells Junction
• Services from New Holland not showing the station. via Disused Stations UK
• The station not on a 1930 OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station not on a 1948 OS map via npe maps
• The station not on a 1953 OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station not on a 1961 OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station via Rail Map Online
• The station and section of line via railwaycodes
• The station on a 1941 aerial photo at p28, via National grid