Grimsby (Corporation Bridge) electric railway station
| Grimsby (Corporation Bridge) | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Grimsby |
| Area | North East Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates | 53°34′15″N 0°05′03″W / 53.5709°N 0.0842°WCoordinates: 53°34′15″N 0°05′03″W / 53.5709°N 0.0842°W |
| Grid reference | TA269099 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Great Central Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Platforms | 0 |
| History | |
| 15 May 1912 | opened |
| 1 July 1956 | closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Grimsby (Corporation Bridge) electric railway station was the eastern terminus of the Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway, the western terminus being Immingham Dock, 7 miles (11 km) to the north west.
It was situated on Corporation Street, Grimsby, in the shadow of Corporation Bridge, which spanned an arm of Alexandra Dock.
The terminus was referred to locally and occasionally officially simply as "Corporation Bridge".
The electric railway was built primarily to carry workers between Grimsby and Immingham Dock which the Great Central Railway had built on a greenfield site in a sparsely populated area. The line was built by the Great Central and remained in railway ownership up to closure in 1961. It therefore appeared in railway timetables and it was possible to buy through tickets between any of the stops on the line and anywhere on the national railway network, though there never was any physical connection with any conventional track. Nor was there with the tramways in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, though that had been an early aspiration for which powers had been obtained by the Great Central through their Grimsby District Light Railway endeavour, of which the G&IER was a part. The key physical problem had always been Corporation Bridge itself, which was not strong enough to take tracks and trams. By the time it was replaced in 1928 Grimsby was winding down its tramways and all thought of joining up had had their day.
In modern parlance the vehicles would be described as trams, but they were usually referred to locally as "tramcars", with related things being called names such as "tramcar halt" and "tramcar bridge" with "car" a more common short form than "tram."
The Corporation Bridge terminus was at the eastern end of the 1 1⁄4 miles (2.0 km) urban "street" section of the inter-urban line.
From Corporation Bridge the line ran on grooved tramway tracks along the middle of first Corporation Road, then Gilbey Road, Grimsby. This part of the line was single track; it originally had three passing places ("loops" in railway parlance) where the line:
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