Grimsby Town railway station
Grimsby Town  | |
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The main entrance to the station | |
| Location | |
| Place | Grimsby |
| Local authority | North East Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates | 53°33′49″N 0°05′13″W / 53.56355°N 0.08700°WCoordinates: 53°33′49″N 0°05′13″W / 53.56355°N 0.08700°W |
| Grid reference | TA267091 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GMB |
| Managed by | TransPennine Express |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 0.424 million |
| 2011/12 |
0.447 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.439 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.427 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.452 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1848 |
| Original company | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Grimsby Town from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Grimsby Town railway station serves the town of Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire, England. It is operated by TransPennine Express, and is also served by Northern and East Midlands Trains. It opened in 1848 and was the terminus of the East Lincolnshire Line from Peterborough and Boston via Louth until the line's closure to passengers in October 1970. The remaining line runs east to west, terminating at Cleethorpes on the northeast Lincolnshire seafront, and runs west to Habrough where the line to Barton-upon-Humber branches northwards, and further to Barnetby, where at Wrawby Junction the line splits into three, going to Scunthorpe/Doncaster/Sheffield, Gainsborough/Retford/Sheffield and Market Rasen/Lincoln/Newark.
The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving, it is in the same area as Grimsby Docks and Cleethorpes stations.
The station has three platforms in use, with an overall roof (renewed in 1978) covering platforms 1 & 2.[1] Platform 1 is the main eastbound through platform, whilst platform 2 is the corresponding platform for westbound trains but is also signalled for eastbound services if required. Platform 3 is the outer face of the southern island platform and is located outside the train shed - this was formerly a through platform used by Doncaster & Lincoln trains but is now only accessible from the west and is normally used by EMT trains from the Lincoln direction that turn back here. The main facilities (ticket office, buffet & waiting room) are all located on platform 1.
The station was refurbished by TransPennine Express in 2007/2008. Brand new departure screens have been fitted and are now in use, along with an automated announcement system (CIS). The ticket office has also been refurbished, the refurbishment includes new lighting, seating, flooring and a refurbished ticket desk. The waiting room on platform 2 and the station buffet have also been refurbished. Two new lifts at a cost of £2 million were installed in 2011 and were opened by Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell on Tuesday 19 July 2011.
Services
The station is served on weekdays by TransPennine Express trains between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport via Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly (hourly), the Northern-operated Cleethorpes to Barton-On-Humber local stopping service (every two hours) and by East Midlands Trains services to Lincoln and Newark (eight trains per day, roughly every two hours). Only the first westbound service each morning and last return pair each evening run to and from Cleethorpes on weekdays – the others all start/terminate here (no through trains to Cleethorpes run on Saturdays). Three Northern trains to and from Sheffield via Retford operate on Saturdays only.
Sundays see a two-hourly service to Manchester in the morning, increasing to hourly in the afternoon. A limited service to Barton (four each way) and Lincoln (three each way) operates during the summer months only.[2]
Future services
Great North Eastern Railway had put forward proposals to create a rail link between Cleethorpes and London Kings Cross, calling at Grimsby Town, Habrough, Scunthorpe and Doncaster, arriving at a new modern Kings Cross station. This service would have been introduced by December 2017 if Alliance Rail's plans had been accepted by the Office of Rail Regulation and would create the first direct link to London since 1986.[3] In May 2016, it was announced by the ORR that GNER had not been granted permission to operate these services.[4]
In October 2017, services between Cleethorpes and Barton-on-Humber will be transferred to East Midlands Trains - the only remaining Northern operated service left at Grimsby thereafter will be the Saturdays-only one between Sheffield and Cleethorpes via Brigg (as noted above).
References
- ↑ "Roof renewal at Grimsby Town in 1978"Lincolnshire Rail Gallery; Retrieved 5 May 2016
- ↑ GB eNRT, May 2016 Edition, Tables 27, 28, 29 & 30
- ↑ "£130m plan could see direct superfast trains to London from Cleethorpes and Grimsby"Grimsby Telegraph news article 28 February 2014; retrieved 11 May 2016
- ↑ "ORR approves new East Coast rail services"RZD-Partner Publishing news article 13 MAy 2016; Retrieved 10 June 2016
External links
- Train times and station information for Grimsby Town railway station from National Rail
- Photos of the station in the 1970s & 80s
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| East Midlands Trains Newark-Grimsby | ||||
| Northern Sheffield-Cleethorpes | ||||
| TransPennine Express | ||||
| Northern Barton Line | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Terminus | Great Northern Railway | Line and station closed |
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