North Lindsey Light Railway

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North Lindsey Light Railway Locale North Lincolnshire Dates of operation 1906 – 1951 Successor line London and North Eastern Railway Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8½ in) Headquarters Scunthorpe
Legend   South TransPennine Scunthorpe   South TransPennine Winterton and Thealby West Halton Winteringham Whitton

The North Lindsey Light Railway was a railway in North Lincolnshire. It was later absorbed by the London and North Eastern Railway, and is now mostly closed.

[edit] Route

The line left the Great Central Railway's Manchester to Cleethorpes route (now the South TransPennine) at Scunthorpe, and passed through Winterton, West Halton and Winteringham; it was later extended to reach Whitton.

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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

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