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[5] and it was possible to buy through tickets between any of the stops on the line and anywhere on the national railway network,[6] 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 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."
Location and facilitiesedit
The middle section of the line passed through thinly populated marshy farmland.[7] The line was single track with passing places ("loops" in railway parlance) every half mile. The points at the ends of the loops were spring loaded as the line was unsignalled, motormen drove by line of sight. All eight passing loops served as halts, with passengers alighting onto cinders beside the tracks. For the benefit of the few who took advantage of these facilities in the early years each passing loop carried its number on a metal plate. Initially the halts were known as No. 1 Passing Place, No. 2 Passing Place etc. Some were named informally at first, but these names stuck and had become official by 1915.[8] Kiln Lane was such a halt, taking its name from the rural lane which crossed the tracks at this point. Official timetables refer to the halt as follows:
1914 Great Central timetable: not mentioned
1922 Bradshaw: Kiln Lane Level Crossing (Stallingborough)
1948 LNER Timetable: Kiln Lane (Stallingborough)
1956 British Railways Working Timetable cover: Kiln Lane (No. 8 Passing Place)
1959 British Railways Public Timetable cover: Kiln Lane (Stallingborough)
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."
Passengers bought their tickets from conductors on board the cars.
The lines from the stationedit
Tramcars arrived from both directions along conventional rails on a reserved way running parallel to the conventional Grimsby District Light Railway, though there was no physical connection between the two. Grooved tram tracks were used on the street section in Grimsby and around Immingham Town.
Servicesedit
Unusually among British tramways services ran round the clock, particularly to provide for railway workers based at Immingham engine shed, whose duties often involved starting or finishing at unsocial hours. Traffic was highly peaked, with convoys of tramcars leaving and arriving to match shift changes at the dock. It was normal for several tramcars to queue to enter and leave the loop at Kiln Lane at the peaks.
After 1945 industry was attracted to the south bank of the Humber, steadily transforming the landscape from rural to urban, though few workers at the new plants lived locally. This led to an increase in ridership and a significant increase in footfall at Kiln Lane halt. It also brought a step change in road use along the lane itself. This led to measures not previously needed, such as signalling, crossing barriers and a concrete waiting shelter.[9]
The east coast floods of 1953 did considerable damage to the tramway's infrastructure, with passengers having to walk between tramcars marooned either side of flooded or washed out sections.[10]
In 1956 over a million passengers used the line[11] and even with deliberate rundown a quarter of a million used it in its last twelve months up to closure in July 1961.[12]
Closureedit
The line took some years to die. It was cut back at the Grimsby end in 1956. In 1959 it was reduced to peak services only, it disappeared from Bradshaw and through ticketing beyond the line was withdrawn.[13] Formal closure of the line and Kiln Lane tramcar halt came on Monday 3 July 1961, with the last tramcars running on Saturday 1 July 1961, when a convoy of six tramcars set off from Immingham Dock, nominally at 14:03.[14] The last tramcar of this convoy and therefore the last from Kiln Lane was Number 4.[15]
Aftermathedit
The first track on the line to be removed was at Immingham Dock tramcar station, to give increased parking space. The process of demolition was piecemeal and even in 2013 many hints of the line remained, such as spun concrete masts near Immingham Town.
Bates, Chris; Bairstow, Martin (2005). Railways in North Lincolnshire. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. ISBN1-871944-30-9.
Bradshaw, George (1985) [1922]. July 1922 Railway Guide. Newton Abbott: David & Charles.
Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Feather, T. (February 1993). "Great Central Inter-Urban". Forward. Great Central Railway Society. ISSN 0141-4488.
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. ISBN1-870119-04-5.
Mummery, Brian; Butler, Ian (1999). Immingham and the Great Central Legacy. Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN0-7524-1714-2.
Pask, Brian (1999). The Tickets of the Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway. Sevenoaks: The Transport Ticket Society. ISBN0-903209-33-0.
Price, J. H. (1991). The Tramways of Grimsby, Immingham & Cleethorpes. Light Rail Transit Association. ISBN0-948106-10-7.
Skelsey, Geoffrey (April 2011). Blakemore, Michael (ed.). "Flirting with the enemy, Railway Operated Electric Tramways in the United Kingdom". Back Track. 25 (4). Easingwold: Atlantic Publishers.
Further materialedit
Anderson, Paul (1992). Railways of Lincolnshire. Oldham: Irwell Press. ISBN1-871608-30-9.
Bett, W. H.; Gillham, J. C. The Tramways of South Yorkshire and Humberside. Light Railway Transport League.
Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900-1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN0-7110-0263-0.
Ludlam, A.J. (July 2006). Kennedy, Rex (ed.). "Immingham-Gateway to the Continent". Steam Days (203). Bournemouth: Redgauntlet Publications. ISSN 0269-0020.
Ludlam, A.J. (1996). Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries, LP 198. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN0-85361-494-6.
Electric Traction Archive, vol. 118, B&R Video Productions, contains a fine archive section on the tramway
The Passing of Pyewipe, Online Video, available via Great Central Railway Society, solely about the tramways of Immingham, Grimsby & Cleethorpes
External linksedit
The halt as a green field site before the dock via National Library of Scotland
The halt on an inter-War OS map via National Library of Scotland
Kiln Lane on an OS map surveyed in 1947 via National Library of Scotland
The tramway in green via Rail Map Online
"The Grimsby & Immingham Tramway". www.lner.info.
Tramway photos via davesrailpics
Tramway remains via Thorne Railway
Tramcar at Immingham Town via geograph
April 11, 2024
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Kiln Lane electric railway station was situated at the eighth of eight passing loops on the otherwise single track central country section 2 of the inter urban 3 Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway when travelling from Corporation Bridge Grimsby to Immingham Dock 4 Kiln LaneGeneral informationLocationStallingborough North East LincolnshireEnglandCoordinates53 36 36 N 0 10 04 W 53 6100 N 0 1677 W 53 6100 0 1677Grid referenceTA213141Platforms0Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyGreat Central RailwayPre groupingGreat Central RailwayPost groupingLondon and North Eastern RailwayKey dates15 May 1912opened as No 8 Passing Placebefore 1922renamed Kiln Lane3 July 1961closed 1 vteGrimsby and ImminghamElectric RailwayLegendBarton amp Immingham Lt Rlyto Ulceby and GoxhillImmingham DockDock entranceto UlcebyImminghamEastern JettyImmingham DockEastern Entrance toImmingham DockImmingham Engine ShedImmingham Queens RdImmingham TownImmingham HaltKiln LaneMarsh Road LCNo 6 Passing PlaceNo 5 Passing PlaceNo 4 Passing PlaceGreat Coates LCPyewipe Depot Halt amp Pyewipe car shedsCleveland BridgeGreat Grimsby andSheffield Junction RlyGrimsbyPyewipe RoadWest amp EastMarsh Junctionsto Grimsby PierCleveland StreetStortford StreetBoulevardRecreation GroundJackson StreetGrimsby TownYarborough StreetCorporation BridgeEast Lincolnshire Rlwyto Bostonto Cleethorpesand Grimsby PiervtePassenger lines ofNorth East LincolnshireLegendHull Corporation PierBarton on Humber Humber FerryBarrow Haven New Holland PierNew Hollandengine shed New Holland TownNew HollandGoxhillEast Halton KillingholmeAdmiralty PlatformThornton Abbey KillingholmeThornton Curtis Immingham West JnHumber Road Jn ImminghamWestern JettyUlcebyAerodrome Platform Eastfield RoadUlceby North Jn Immingham DockUlceby Dock EntranceImminghamengine shed ImminghamEastern JettyImminghamQueens Road Immingham DockImmingham Town Eastern Entrance toImmingham DockSheffield Lincoln line amp South HumbersideMain Line Immingham HaltHabrough Kiln LaneStallingborough Marsh Road LCHealing No 5 Passing PlaceGreat Coates Great Coates LCPyewipeDepot Halt Pyewipe car shedsCleveland Bridge GrimsbyPyewipe RoadWest Marsh Jn East Marsh JnCleveland StreetStortford StreetGrimsby Town BoulevardRecreation GroundEast Lincolnshire Rlwyto Boston Jackson StreetGrimsbyengine shed Yarborough StreetGrimsby Docks Corporation BridgeGrimsby PierRiby StreetPlatformNew CleeCleethorpesKingsway CCLR DiscoveryLakeside CentralNorth Sea Lane HumberstonNorth Sea LaneBeachSouth Sea Lane Lincolnshire Coast Lt Rly1960 1985 Contents 1 Overview 2 Location and facilities 3 The lines from the station 4 Services 5 Closure 6 Aftermath 7 References 7 1 Sources 8 Further material 9 External linksOverview editThe 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 5 and it was possible to buy through tickets between any of the stops on the line and anywhere on the national railway network 6 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 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 Location and facilities editThe middle section of the line passed through thinly populated marshy farmland 7 The line was single track with passing places loops in railway parlance every half mile The points at the ends of the loops were spring loaded as the line was unsignalled motormen drove by line of sight All eight passing loops served as halts with passengers alighting onto cinders beside the tracks For the benefit of the few who took advantage of these facilities in the early years each passing loop carried its number on a metal plate Initially the halts were known as No 1 Passing Place No 2 Passing Place etc Some were named informally at first but these names stuck and had become official by 1915 8 Kiln Lane was such a halt taking its name from the rural lane which crossed the tracks at this point Official timetables refer to the halt as follows 1914 Great Central timetable not mentioned 1922 Bradshaw Kiln Lane Level Crossing Stallingborough 1948 LNER Timetable Kiln Lane Stallingborough 1956 British Railways Working Timetable cover Kiln Lane No 8 Passing Place 1959 British Railways Public Timetable cover Kiln Lane Stallingborough 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 Passengers bought their tickets from conductors on board the cars The lines from the station editTramcars arrived from both directions along conventional rails on a reserved way running parallel to the conventional Grimsby District Light Railway though there was no physical connection between the two Grooved tram tracks were used on the street section in Grimsby and around Immingham Town Services editUnusually among British tramways services ran round the clock particularly to provide for railway workers based at Immingham engine shed whose duties often involved starting or finishing at unsocial hours Traffic was highly peaked with convoys of tramcars leaving and arriving to match shift changes at the dock It was normal for several tramcars to queue to enter and leave the loop at Kiln Lane at the peaks After 1945 industry was attracted to the south bank of the Humber steadily transforming the landscape from rural to urban though few workers at the new plants lived locally This led to an increase in ridership and a significant increase in footfall at Kiln Lane halt It also brought a step change in road use along the lane itself This led to measures not previously needed such as signalling crossing barriers and a concrete waiting shelter 9 The east coast floods of 1953 did considerable damage to the tramway s infrastructure with passengers having to walk between tramcars marooned either side of flooded or washed out sections 10 In 1956 over a million passengers used the line 11 and even with deliberate rundown a quarter of a million used it in its last twelve months up to closure in July 1961 12 Closure editThe line took some years to die It was cut back at the Grimsby end in 1956 In 1959 it was reduced to peak services only it disappeared from Bradshaw and through ticketing beyond the line was withdrawn 13 Formal closure of the line and Kiln Lane tramcar halt came on Monday 3 July 1961 with the last tramcars running on Saturday 1 July 1961 when a convoy of six tramcars set off from Immingham Dock nominally at 14 03 14 The last tramcar of this convoy and therefore the last from Kiln Lane was Number 4 15 Aftermath editThe first track on the line to be removed was at Immingham Dock tramcar station to give increased parking space The process of demolition was piecemeal and even in 2013 many hints of the line remained such as spun concrete masts near Immingham Town Former Services Preceding station Disused railways Following stationImmingham TownLine and station closed Great Central RailwayGrimsby and Immingham Electric Railway Marsh Road LCLine and station closedReferences edit Butt 1995 pp 133 amp 175 Bates amp Bairstow 2005 p 81 Feather 1993 p 1 King amp Hewins 1989 Photos 54 amp 111 Bradshaw 1985 p 717 Price 1991 p 112 Mummery amp Butler 1999 p 65 Pask 1999 p 2 Price 1991 pp 85 amp 100 King amp Hewins 1989 Photo 55 Price 1991 p 94 Skelsey 2011 p 237 Bates amp Bairstow 2005 p 85 Skelsey 2011 p 239 Price 1991 p 102 Sources edit Bates Chris Bairstow Martin 2005 Railways in North Lincolnshire Leeds Martin Bairstow ISBN 1 871944 30 9 Bradshaw George 1985 1922 July 1922 Railway Guide Newton Abbott David amp Charles Butt R V J October 1995 The Directory of Railway Stations details every public and private passenger station halt platform and stopping place past and present 1st ed Sparkford Patrick Stephens Ltd ISBN 978 1 85260 508 7 OCLC 60251199 OL 11956311M Feather T February 1993 Great Central Inter Urban Forward Great Central Railway Society ISSN 0141 4488 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 Mummery Brian Butler Ian 1999 Immingham and the Great Central Legacy Stroud Tempus Publishing Ltd ISBN 0 7524 1714 2 Pask Brian 1999 The Tickets of the Grimsby amp Immingham Electric Railway Sevenoaks The Transport Ticket Society ISBN 0 903209 33 0 Price J H 1991 The Tramways of Grimsby Immingham amp Cleethorpes Light Rail Transit Association ISBN 0 948106 10 7 Skelsey Geoffrey April 2011 Blakemore Michael ed Flirting with the enemy Railway Operated Electric Tramways in the United Kingdom Back Track 25 4 Easingwold Atlantic Publishers Further material editAnderson Paul 1992 Railways of Lincolnshire Oldham Irwell Press ISBN 1 871608 30 9 Bett W H Gillham J C The Tramways of South Yorkshire and Humberside Light Railway Transport League Dow George 1965 Great Central Volume Three Fay Sets the Pace 1900 1922 Shepperton Ian Allan ISBN 0 7110 0263 0 Ludlam A J July 2006 Kennedy Rex ed Immingham Gateway to the Continent Steam Days 203 Bournemouth Redgauntlet Publications ISSN 0269 0020 Ludlam A J 1996 Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries LP 198 Headington Oxford The Oakwood Press ISBN 0 85361 494 6 Electric Traction Archive vol 118 B amp R Video Productions contains a fine archive section on the tramway The Passing of Pyewipe Online Video available via Great Central Railway Society solely about the tramways of Immingham Grimsby amp CleethorpesExternal links editThe halt as a green field site before the dock via National Library of Scotland The halt on an inter War OS map via National Library of Scotland Kiln Lane on an OS map surveyed in 1947 via National Library of Scotland The tramway in green via Rail Map Online The Grimsby amp Immingham Tramway www lner info Tramway photos via davesrailpics The Tramway via Local Transport History Soc Tramway remains via Thorne Railway Tramcar at Immingham Town via geograph Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kiln Lane electric railway station amp oldid 1116150868, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
