Place Immingham Pre-grouping Great Central Railway Original company Great Central Railway | Grid reference TA203165 15 May 1912 opened Platforms in use 1 | |
Area North East Lincolnshire Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway Similar Immingham Dock railway st, Immingham Dock electric ra, Grimsby (Corporation Bridge) el | ||
Immingham (Eastern Jetty) railway station was a special excursion station built along the port's eastern jetty to cater for traffic to passenger ships which started out on cruises to the North Cape, Norwegian Fjords and the Baltic.
The cruise ships sometimes berthed in the dock itself, but usually they moored at the seaward side of the jetty where they were adjacent to all-First Class, Restaurant Car special trains. These operated along two routes:
Originally these trains were hauled by Great Central Railway 4-6-0 locomotives but following grouping in 1922 Great Northern motive power took many of them over.
Visits by such ships drew crowds of sightseers and passed into local folklore, none more so than the vessel SS Arandora Star which was torpedoed in 1940 with heavy loss of life.
The station, in reality not much more than a long wooden platform along the jetty, was only used for the transfer of the passengers and luggage from train to ship and vice versa and so little in the way of facilities was needed or provided.
The cruises, the only traffic, terminated in 1939, just prior to the Second World War. Although the platform remained for some time, the station was effectively closed.
By 2015 the tracks on the jetty had long been lifted, but the structure remained well used, handling oils, spirits, and liquid chemicals.