New Holland railway station

New Holland
Location	New Holland, North Lincolnshire England
Coordinates	53°42′07″N 0°21′36″W / 53.702°N 0.360°W
Grid reference	TA083240
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	NHL
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	24 June 1981
Passengers
2015/16	14,708
2016/17	14,996
2017/18	14,254
2018/19	14,488
2019/20	13,066
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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– 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

New Holland railway station is a single platform station which serves the village of New Holland in North Lincolnshire, England. The station is situated on the Barton line 19 miles (31 km) west of Cleethorpes, and all trains serving it are operated by Northern Trains.

History

The original station, named New Holland Town, was built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) and was situated a few yards towards the Humber Estuary at the landward end of New Holland Pier, a jetty, some 1,500 feet (460 m) in length which served a ferry service to Hull. At the pier head was situated New Holland Pier railway station. As one of the early aims of the MS&LR was to reach Hull the pierhead at New Holland became its "Up" terminus. This was later changed to Grimsby on completion of the "London Extension" to Marylebone.

Because of these early aims the railway company bought out the rights of the New Holland Ferry. These rights transferred to the Great Central Railway, the London & North Eastern Railway and, on nationalisation, British Railways. The ferry service was closed on the opening of the Humber Bridge in June 1981 and the New Holland Pier railway station closed. The present day railway station at New Holland opened to serve the community, replacing the original which closed on the same day.

New Holland was a railway community, the majority of the housing being built by the company to house its workers. It played an important part in railway life for it was here that the railway company laundry was situated and special laundry vans brought the soiled washing from the companies stations, restaurant cars and hotels. Also centred here were the company's wagon sheet repair shops, skills used in the repair of sails could be put to a railway use.

Yarborough Hotel was rebuilt (replacing a hotel bought in 1845)^[1] in 1851 for MS&LR.^[2] It was included in adverts for LNER hotels in 1936,^[3] but was sold before nationalisation, being advertised for sale in 1947.^[4]

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has limited amenities (just a waiting shelter, bench seat and timetable poster board on the single wood platform). Tickets have to be purchased in advance or on the train. Level access is available between the station entrance and platform.^[5]

Services

Monday to Saturdays there is generally a two-hourly stopping service to Barton-on-Humber to Grimsby Town and Cleethorpes.^[6] There are four arrivals and& departures each way on summer Sundays (May to September) also. The service is now normally worked by a Class 153 railcar all day - the practice of using a Class 185 on the first morning service for operational reasons (which meant that only certain doors on the unit being used to its length and also certain station stops being omitted from the timetable) ceased at the December 2013 timetable change but was reintroduced at the December 2018 timetable change.^[7]

References

External links

• Train times and station information for New Holland railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Barrow Haven		Northern Trains Barton line		Goxhill