Althorpe railway station

Althorpe
Althorpe
	Entrance to the station
General information
Location	Althorpe, North Lincolnshire; England
Coordinates	53°35′08″N 0°43′59″W / 53.58557°N 0.73300°W
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
2018/19	7,978
2019/20	9,752
2020/21	2,048
2021/22	4,488
2022/23	1,408
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 edit

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.

Train approaching from Keadby Bridge

Footbridge

Services edit

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Northern Trains ran an hourly service Monday-Saturday in both direction calling here between Doncaster and Scunthorpe. With no service on a Sunday.^[3]

That was reduced to a rail replacement bus service every 2 hours, again with no services on a Sunday post-pandemic. In the winter 2022 timetable the rail service has been reinstated, but still on a two-hourly service pattern.

A Monday-Saturday early morning TransPennine Express service between Cleethorpes and Liverpool Lime Street also calls here, as does the last corresponding service from Liverpool.^[4]

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
Crowle		TransPennine Express South Humberside Main Line South TransPennine Limited Service		Scunthorpe