The temporary station lasted for some years. The July 1922 Bradshaw's Guide shows Immingham Western jetty as the line's terminus,[7] whilst a photograph of a locomotive in Great Central livery using the permanent replacement Immingham Dock station[8] suggests the handover took place around 1922. The new station was nearer the dock gates.[9][10]
Dock workers from the Grimsby direction were catered for by the Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway, an inter-urban tram system which also terminated at a station named Immingham Dock. Trains and trams at the two stations faced each other from opposite sides of the dock's entrance lock gates[11]
The station had a single curving platform[12] with a run round facility and a small pagoda - style station building which housed the usual facilities. The platform was constructed in wood,[13][14] later rebuilt with concrete supports.[15] Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of Goxhill, passing through East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham.
The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch on 17 June 1963 because a service which had been provided since at least 1954[16] via Ulceby was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trains[14] to publicly timetabled passenger trains. These ran from Cleethorpes, calling at New Clee, Grimsby Docks and Grimsby Town then non-stop via Habrough, at times coinciding with dock workers' shift changes.[17] This service was withdrawn on 6 October 1969 when the station finally closed.
On 7 October 1967 a RCTS railtour visited the station.[18]
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King, Paul (2019). The Railways of North-east Lincolnshire, Part 2: Stations. Grimsby: Pyewipe Publications. ISBN978-1-9164603-1-7.