Grimsby Docks railway station

Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Grimsby Docks
Grimsby Docks
General information
Location	Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire; England
Coordinates	53°34′26″N 0°04′34″W / 53.574°N 0.076°W
Grid reference	TA274103
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	GMD
Classification	DfT category F2
Passengers
2018/19	4,830
2019/20	4,820
2020/21	530
2021/22	2,078
2022/23	2,958
Notes
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Passenger lines of
North East Lincolnshire

Legend

Hull Corporation Pier

Immingham West Jn

Humber Road Jn

Eastfield Road

Ulceby North Jn

Dock Entrance

Immingham Dock

Immingham Town

&

South Humberside

Main Line

West Marsh Jn

East Marsh Jn

East Lincolnshire Rlwy

to Boston

Kingsway

(CCLR)

Discovery

Lakeside Central

North Sea Lane

Humberston

North Sea Lane

Beach

South Sea Lane

Lincolnshire Coast Lt Rly

1960–1985

Grimsby Docks railway station serves the Freeman Street area of Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire, England. This is one of the oldest parts of the town, close to the Freeman Street Market and the town's docks both commercial and fish, the railway entrance to both being over the level crossing at the Cleethorpes end. The docks offices can be seen in the photograph in the distance, in which the line to Cleethorpes swings round to the right.

The station had miles of sidings for the storage of fish vans to its rear and was double track.

Between 19 September and 2 October 1993, the main line east of Brocklesby Junction was closed to allow for the completion and commissioning of the Grimsby area Resignalling scheme. The double track line east of Grimsby Town was reduced to single and the whole line was resignalled to colour lights operated from Pasture Street signal box. A short passing loop, enough for the present day traffic, is located towards Pasture Street. Signalling control on the line was transferred to the York Rail Operating Centre in January 2016 and the box at Pasture Street was decommissioned and demolished.

Although the train service through Grimsby Docks has been chiefly passenger trains, a thriving freight service originated from the nearby Fish Docks. Prior to the building of the present Cleethorpes Road bridge, a complex railway junction and level crossing was situated on the Cleethorpes side of Grimsby Docks station. The loss of the fresh fish traffic from rail to road eventually resulted in the removal of the junction. The level crossing, being on a major route between Grimsby town and Cleethorpes, was the cause for many delays on Cleethorpe Road. In the mid-1960s, it was subsequently removed in favour of a concrete-built road bridge. The bridge itself caused the wholesale demolition of several buildings housing numerous businesses, banks, public houses and a major hotel (run by the parents of actress Patricia Hodge) but by the time of its completion in 1967 the changes in transportation of fish had made both the bridge and the station redundant.

The town's main railway station is Grimsby Town, located in the town centre.

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 and Cleethorpes stations.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has very basic amenities (bench seating, a waiting shelter, timetable poster board and public telephone). All tickets have to be purchased prior to travel or on the train. Step-free access is available from the entrance and car park to the platform.^[1]

Services

All services at Grimsby Docks are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 170 DMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction between Cleethorpes and Barton-on-Humber.^[2]

On Sundays, the station is served by four trains per day in each direction during the summer months only. No services call at the station on Sundays during the winter months.

Preceding station		Following station
Grimsby Town	East Midlands Railway Barton Line	New Clee
Historical railways
Grimsby Town Line and station open	Great Central Railway Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway	Grimsby Pier Line and station closed
Grimsby Town Line and station open		Riby Street Platform Line open, station closed

References

^ "Grimsby Docks (GMD)". National Rail Enquiries.
^ Table 28 National Rail timetable, June 2024

Milnes, Roger (ed.). "Grimsby Area Resignalling". Great Central Year Book. the Great Central Railway Society.
Dow, George (1959). Great Central. Vol. 1. Locomotive Publishing Co.