Immingham (Eastern Jetty) railway station was a special excursion station built along the eastern jetty to cater for traffic to passenger ships which started out on cruises from here to the North Cape, Norwegian Fjords and the Baltic. The cruise ships, which tied up on the outside of the arm, were then adjacent to the trains which operated to Marylebone via Retford, the Waleswood Curve and the then new main line via Leicester Central. Originally these special trains were hauled by Great Central Railway 4-6-0 locomotives but following grouping in 1922 Great Northern motive power took over many of them.
The station, in really not much more than a long wooden platform along the jetty, was only used for the transfer of the passengers and luggage from train to ship and vice versa and so little in the way of facilities were needed or provided.
The cruises, the only traffic, terminated in 1938, just prior to World War II and although the platform remained for some time, the station was effectively closed.