East Halton railway station

East Halton railway station was located on Skitter Road north of East Halton, Lincolnshire, England. The station was built by the Barton and Immingham Light Railway under the auspices of the Great Central Railway. The line's primary purpose was to enable workers to get to and from Immingham Dock which was being built at the time the line was opened. The typical journey time to the dock was fifteen minutes. The station was the only one on the line built with two brick faced platforms, though the second track and platform were removed in later years. In 1954 the platform facilities consisted of a seat, a corrugated iron shelter a station sign reading East Halton Halt and two lamps. Shortly after closure the track was lifted for about 100 yards from the junction at Goxhill, leaving the line through the station as a long siding which was sometimes used to store redundant wagons. Some time later the track was lifted through the station almost to Killingholme Admiralty Platform. In 2015 the line of route was still plain to see.

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East Halton

East Halton is a small village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated close to the Humber estuary, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west from Immingham and 1 mile (1.6 km) north from the neighbouring village of North Killingholme. The 2001 census recorded a population of 604 people, increasing to 626 at the 2011 census. East Halton Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Peter. It originated in the 13th century, and was restored by James Fowler of Louth in 1868, who raised the chancel and aisle. The village had Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The village has a primary school, village shop and post office, and the Black Bull public house. East Halton was previously served by East Halton railway station on the New Holland and Immingham Dock branch of the Great Central Railway. East Halton is home to a rare Lincolnshire variant of the British brownie legend. According to a nineteenth-century account, a helpful supernatural folklore being aided a local farmer for years, asking only for a linen smock each New Year. When offered a coarse sack instead, the creature vanished forever, cursing the farmer’s thrift and foretelling misfortune.

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Killingholme A power station

Killingholme A Power Station was a combined‐cycle gas turbine natural gas power station within the civil parish of North Killingholme, in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. The facility lies north of the Lindsey Oil Refinery, and adjacent to Killingholme B power station. Killingholme A (665 MW) opened in 1994 and its final synchronisation took place in March 2016 with a combined station output of 635 MW.

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Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station

Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station, known locally as Admiralty Platform, was near North Killingholme Haven, Lincolnshire, England. The station was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1913 a later addition to the branch line from Goxhill to Immingham Dock, near both the former seaplane base at RNAS Killingholme and the Admiralty oil terminal at North Killingholme Haven. Like its neighbour Killingholme, Admiralty Platform had a single, straight, wooden platform with minimal facilities. These were still intact when a RCTS Special called four years after closure on 7 October 1967. The station was unusual in several respects: although opened primarily to serve a naval base it was a public station, at least outside wartime it evaded maps, including OS maps it evaded timetables it evaded Signalling Record Society records and no tickets were thought to survive which show the station as a starting point, but an example has now been found, (see picture). The station closed on 17 June 1963 along with the other stations on the line. When the line and station opened the area was rural and thinly populated. By 2015 the area round the former station had become industrial but remained thinly populated. The track through the station site was still in use for freight.

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Killingholme B power station

Killingholme B Power Station is a Combined‐cycle gas turbine natural gas power station in the civil parish of North Killingholme in North Lincolnshire, north of the Lindsey Oil Refinery, and adjacent to Killingholme A power station Killingholme B (900 MW) opened in 1993 and is owned by Uniper (Formerly E.ON UK).

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