Barton-on-Humber railway station

Barton-on-Humber

Location
Place	Barton-upon-Humber
Local authority	North Lincolnshire
Coordinates	53°41′20″N 0°26′35″W / 53.689°N 0.443°W / 53.689; -0.443Coordinates: 53°41′20″N 0°26′35″W / 53.689°N 0.443°W / 53.689; -0.443
Grid reference	TA029225
Operations
Station code	BAU
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	45,325
2005/06	41,492
2006/07	44,487
2007/08	48,319
2008/09	48,806
2009/10	46,428
2010/11	46,088
2011/12	47,698
2012/13	45,114
2013/14	42,950
History
Key dates	Opened 1 March 1849 (1 March 1849)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Barton-on-Humber from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Barton-on-Humber railway station serves the town of Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire, England.

The station, which was once the terminus of a 3.25-mile (5 km) branch line from New Holland, is nowadays the terminus of the Barton Line services operating from Cleethorpes. It is situated 22.75 miles (37 km) west of the resort. There is a connecting bus service from the town to Hull across the Humber Bridge which was introduced on the opening of the bridge to replace the New Holland Ferry.

Approach to the branch was by a triangular junction at New Holland which enabled passenger trains to operate a New Holland Pier to Barton service in connection with the ferries and rail services from Cleethorpes and for freight to have direct access from the main line via Ulceby Junction. When the Humber Bridge opened the junction was removed and passenger services operated directly from Cleethorpes via the new platform at New Holland.

History

The station was opened as part of the branch line from New Holland to Barton-on-Humber in 1849.^[1] It was considerably larger until the early 1970s, but the old goods yard & buildings were all demolished by British Rail in 1973. The nearby bus station was added in 1981 when the Humber Bridge opened, whilst the station platform now in use was rebuilt to current specifications in 1998.

The station in 1967

The station in May 1976

The station in 2008

Service

Monday to Saturdays there is generally a two-hourly service from Barton-on-Humber to Grimsby Town and Cleethorpes.^[2] There are four arrivals & departures on summer Sundays also. The service is now worked by a Class 153 all day - the practice of using a Class 185 unit on the first service to Cleethorpes (which only used the doors on middle carriage of the three car unit due to it being longer than the platforms at many of the intermediate stations) ended at the December 2013 timetable change.

Freight services do not operate over the route aside from the occasional engineering train. A restriction now prevents mainline locomotives from entering the station. General goods facilities were withdrawn and the old goods yard closed back in the late 1960s, though the now-closed Albright and Wilson chemical works a mile or so to the east had a rail connection up until closure in 1988^[3] and received regular train loads of ammonia & phosphoric acid from the company's plant near Corkickle in Cumbria until the end of the 1970s.