Thornton Curtis railway station

Thornton Curtis
Location
Place	Thornton Curtis
Area	North Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°38′51″N 0°19′08″W / 53.6476°N 0.3188°WCoordinates: 53°38′51″N 0°19′08″W / 53.6476°N 0.3188°W
Grid reference	TA112181
Operations
Original company	Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Platforms	2 (probable)
History
by June 1848	Station opened
by November 1848[1]	Station closed, to be replaced by Thornton Abbey station
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Passenger Lines of North East Lincolnshire
Hull Corporation Pier Barton- on-Humber Humber Ferry Barrow Haven New Holland Pier New Holland engine shed New Holland Town New Holland Goxhill East Halton Killingholme Admiralty Platform Thornton Abbey Killingholme Thornton Curtis Immingham West Jn Immingham Western Jetty Ulceby Aerodrome Platform Humber Road Jn Ulceby North Jn Immingham Dock Ulceby Dock Entrance Immingham engine shed Immingham Eastern Jetty Immingham Queens Road Immingham Dock Immingham Town Eastern Entrance to Immingham Dock Sheffield to Lincoln Line & South Humberside Main Line Immingham Halt Habrough Kiln Lane Stallingborough Marsh Road LC Healing No.5 Passing Place Great Coates Great Coates LC Pyewipe Depot Halt Pyewipe car sheds Cleveland Bridge Grimsby Pyewipe Road West Marsh Jn East Marsh Jn Cleveland Street Stortford Street Grimsby Town Boulevard Recreation Ground East Lincolnshire Rlwy to Boston Jackson Street Grimsby engine shed Yarborough Street Grimsby Docks Corporation Bridge Grimsby Pier Riby Street Platform New Clee Cleethorpes Kingsway(CCLR) Discovery Lakeside Central North Sea Lane Humberston North Sea Lane Beach South Sea Lane Lincolnshire Coast Lt Rly 1960–1985

Thornton Curtis railway station was a temporary structure provided by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway until it opened Thornton Abbey station 42 chains (840 m) to the north.^[2][3]

The station was situated south west of College Farm in what in 2015 was still open country with no road access. The line through the station opened on 2 April 1848, with Thornton Curtis opening "a little later". It appeared in Bradshaw from June to November 1848 inclusive. The station's permanent successor first appeared in Bradshaw in August 1849.^[4]

By 2015 the only suggestion that a station might ever have existed at the site was a slight widening of the cutting.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Goxhill Line and station open		Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Grimsby-New Holland Line		Ulceby Line and station open

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 229.
2. King & Hewins 1989, p. 8.
3. Ludlam 1996, p. 21.
4. Dow 1959, p. 119.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Dow, George (1985) [1959]. Great Central, Volume One: The Progenitors, 1813-1863. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1468-X. OCLC 60021205.
• 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.
• Ludlam, A.J. (1996). Railways to New Holland and the Humber Ferries. Headington, Oxford: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0 85361 494 6. LP 198.

External links

• The station remains SW of College farm on a 1887 OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station and section of line via railwaycodes