Althorpe railway station

Althorpe
Entrance to the station
Location
Place	Althorpe
Local authority	North Lincolnshire
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
Operations
Station code	ALP
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	5,490
2005/06	6,660
2006/07	7,428
2007/08	9,853
2008/09	8,906
2009/10	6,700
2010/11	8,430
2011/12	9,296
2012/13	8,476
2013/14	6,404
History
Original company	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
1 October 1866	Station opens
21 May 1916	Station resited
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Althorpe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Althorpe railway station serves the village of Althorpe in North Lincolnshire, England. The station is also very close to the villages of Keadby and Gunness.

Stopping services from Sheffield to Scunthorpe call at the station. Some stopping services terminate at Doncaster, but during the day others continue through to Sheffield and Lincoln Central.

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

The station 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). Platform 2 (westbound) is accessible only by a footbridge with 50 steps.

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.

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.

Services

Services call here between approximately 06:00 and 23:15 Monday to Friday, and 06:00 to 22:15 Saturday on an hourly frequency each way.^[1]

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.

Notes

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Crowle		Northern Rail South Humberside Main Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Scunthorpe

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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

External links

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

Train approaching from Keadby Bridge

Footbridge