North Lindsey Light Railway

Locale	North Lincolnshire
Dates of operation	1906 – 1951
Successor	London and North Eastern Railway
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
Headquarters	Scunthorpe

Legend

Winterton and Thealby

Roxby landfill

Flixborough Wharf

Normanby Park (Goods)

Scunthorpe (Dawes Lane)

Scunthorpe

( South TransPennine )

The North Lindsey Light Railway was a light railway in North Lincolnshire. It was later absorbed by the Great Central Railway and later, on grouping, it passed to the London and North Eastern Railway. The railway is now mostly closed.

Route

A 1914 Railway Clearing House map showing (left) the southern end of the North Lindsey Light Railway (in red)

The line had its own station in Scunthorpe at Dawes Lane some 1/2 mile from Frodingham on the Great Central Railway's Manchester to Cleethorpes route (now the South TransPennine). The N.L.L.R. was connected to the Great Central, first by a connection into the goods yard facing towards Grimsby, and then, in 1913, by a further line forming a triangle facing towards Keadby. The line passed through Winterton and Thealby, West Halton and Winteringham; it was later extended to reach Whitton. An additional station for goods was opened at Normanby Park to deal with traffic to John Lysaghts works nearby.

The line opened in stages, Scunthorpe to Winterton in 1906, then on to Winteringham in 1907 and finally to Whitton in 1910.

Passenger services ended in 1925 and the line from Winteringham to Whitton closed in 1951. Part of the line still exists at the Scunthorpe end and is used to access a landfill site near Roxby which receives trainloads of household rubbish from various locations in the Greater Manchester area.

There were docks on the banks of the Humber Estuary at Winteringham Haven.

History

The line was backed and operated by the Great Central Railway; its strategic importance to them was to prevent the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from encroaching into their territory by crossing the River Trent.

References

NLLR on The Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire Transport Review
Railways on Winteringham.info

Constituent railway companies of the London and North Eastern Railway

Constituent companies	Great Central Railway Great Eastern Railway Great Northern Railway Great North of Scotland Railway Hull and Barnsley Railway North British Railway North Eastern Railway

Subsidiary companies	Brackenhill Light Railway Colne Valley and Halstead Railway East and West Yorkshire Union Railway East Lincolnshire Railway Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway Forcett Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Gifford and Garvald Light Railway Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway Horncastle Railway Humber Commercial Railway and Dock Kilsyth and Bonnybridge railway Lauder Light Railway London and Blackwall Railway Mansfield Railway Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Newburgh and North Fife Railway North Lindsey Light Railway Nottingham and Grantham Railway and Canal Nottingham Joint Station Committee Nottingham Suburban Railway Seaforth and Sefton Junction Railway Sheffield District Railway South Yorkshire Junction Railway Stamford and Essendine Railway West Riding and Grimsby Railway

(Full list of constituents)

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