Riby Street Platform railway station

Riby Street Platform
Location
Place	Grimsby
Area	Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°34′34″N 0°04′22″W / 53.5762°N 0.0729°W / 53.5762; -0.0729Coordinates: 53°34′34″N 0°04′22″W / 53.5762°N 0.0729°W / 53.5762; -0.0729
Grid reference	TA277106
Operations
Original company	Great Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Platforms	2
History
by October 1904	opened
14 April 1941[1]	closed
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Railways around Grimsby Docks railway station in 1914

Passenger Lines of North East Lincolnshire
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Riby Street Platform was a railway station which served the Riby Street area of Grimsby from 1904–1941. It was opened by the Great Central Railway to serve the very first dock in Grimsby but was closed during World War II and never reopened.

The station was known as "Skateknob Junction" by workers at the nearby fish docks.^[2][3] It consisted of two narrow wooden platforms connected by a footbridge. Although the platforms had been removed, the footbridge was still plain to see in 1961.^[4]

Services

The station was built aiming at services for workers at the adjacent docks, most of which were unadvertised. It is not shown in the July 1922 Bradshaw.^[5]

Aftermath

By 2015 no trace of the station could be found. The line through the station site had been reduced to single track, but enjoyed a regular passenger service to Cleethorpes. No railborne fish traffic had been carried from Grimsby for many years.

References

Sources

• Bradshaw, George (1985) [1922]. July 1922 Railway Guide. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. 
• Croughton, Godfrey; Kidner, Roger W.; Young, Alan (1982). Private and Untimetabled Railway Stations, Halts and Stopping Places X 43. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 281 1. 
• 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. 

External links

• The station on a 25" OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The station on a 1908 OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• Riby St Platform on an OS map surveyed in 1931 via National Library of Scotland
• The station and its line via railwaycodes