Althorpe railway station

Althorpe
Entrance to the station
Location	Althorpe, North Lincolnshire England
Coordinates	53°35′08″N 0°43′59″W / 53.58557°N 0.73300°W / 53.58557; -0.73300Coordinates: 53°35′08″N 0°43′59″W / 53.58557°N 0.73300°W / 53.58557; -0.73300
Grid reference	SE839106
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ALP
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 October 1866	Station opens
21 May 1916	Station resited
Passengers
2016/17	10,702
2017/18	9,818
2018/19	7,978
2019/20	9,752
2020/21	2,048
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Althorpe railway station serves the village of Althorpe in North Lincolnshire, England. The station is also very close to the villages of Keadby,Gunness and Burringham.

Most services are provided by Northern Trains who operate the station. Occasional services by TransPennine Express also call at this station.

The station is unstaffed and has very limited facilities. There is a shelter on each platform, with a telephone and a help point for contact with Customer Services and British Transport Police on Platform 1 (eastbound); train running information is also provided by timetable posters on each side. Platform 2 (westbound) is accessible only by a footbridge with 50 steps.^[1]

The station is on the west bank of the River Trent, to the west of the combined road-and-rail King George V Bridge, which was a lifting bridge until the late 1950s.

History[]

The first Althorpe station, opened by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, was on the original line over the Trent and replaced the terminus, Keadby, on the South Yorkshire Railway, which became Keadby Goods. This station was originally known as Keadby and Althorpe.

When the line was again moved to a new alignment to cross the river by the present "King George V" bridge a new station was opened which is still in use. It replaced two earlier stations, Althorpe and Gunness & Burringham, which had been about half a mile apart.^[2]

The station which now bears the name, became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Gallery[]

Train approaching from Keadby Bridge

Footbridge

Services[]

The majority of services at Althorpe are operated by Northern Trains. Services run between approximately 06:00 and 23:15 Monday to Friday, and 06:00 to 22:15 Saturday.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[3]

• 1 tph to Doncaster
• 1 tph to Scunthorpe

There is also a single daily service between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport which is operated by TransPennine Express. This service runs towards Manchester in the early morning and towards Cleethorpes in the late evening.^[4]

No services call at this station on Sundays.

In February 2013 the line northeast of Hatfield and Stainforth station towards Thorne was blocked by the Hatfield Colliery landslip, with all services over the section halted. The line reopened in July 2013.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Crowle		Northern Trains South Humberside Main Line Monday-Saturday only		Scunthorpe
		TransPennine Express South Humberside Main Line South TransPennine Limited Service

References[]

• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Althorpe railway station.

• Train times and station information for Althorpe railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map