Immingham Dock electric railway station

Immingham Dock
Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway at Immingham Dock in 1958
Location
Place	Immingham
Area	North East Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°37′48″N 0°11′11″W / 53.62987°N 0.18646°W / 53.62987; -0.18646Coordinates: 53°37′48″N 0°11′11″W / 53.62987°N 0.18646°W / 53.62987; -0.18646
Grid reference	TA200163
Operations
Original company	Great Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	0
History
17 November 1913	opened
3 July 1961	closed
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Immingham Dock electric railway station was the western terminus of the inter-urbanGrimsby and Immingham Electric Railway which ran from Corporation Bridge, Grimsby with a reversal at what was euphemistically called Immingham Town.

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 with the tramways in Grimsby and Cleethorpes.

In modern parlance the vehicles would be described as trams, but they were typically referred to locally and in publications such as Bradshaw as "cars" or "tramcars", with related things being called names such as "tramcar halt" and "tramcar bridge." "Car" was always a more common short form than "tram."

Dock tramcar station was situated on the southeast side of the dock's main entrance lock and at right angles to it. Directly opposite the station on the other side of the lock was a conventional railway station, also called [[Immingham Dock railway station|Immingham Dock Lines from the two set off in opposite directions.

The line was a tramway, no platforms ever existed at any of the stopping places; passengers were expected to board and alight from the roadway or trackside cinders according to the location. The "stations" were much more commonly referred to as "halts" or "stopping places."

A waiting room was provided at Dock tramcar station. Passengers bought tickets on board from the conductor. Timetables and tickets consistently used the name "Immingham Dock" throughout the terminus's life.

The line's two termini - Corporation Bridge and Immingham Dock - were the only halts on the line to attempt anything along the lines of railway nameboards, both proclaimed themselves in very large letters to be a "TRAMWAY STATION."