Althorpe railway station serves the

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Althorpe Althorpe is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Keadby with Althorpe, in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It is west of Scunthorpe and the same distance south-east ...

North Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire is a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Lincolnshire, England. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census, it had a population of 167,446. T ...

, England. The

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is also very close to the villages of

Keadby __NOTOC__ Keadby is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Keadby with Althorpe, in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just off the A18, west of Scu ...

Gunness Gunness (or Gunhouse) is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from Scunthorpe, and on the east bank of the River Trent. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,462. On the Doncaster ...

and Burringham. Most services are provided by

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who operate the station. Occasional services by

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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

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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. The station is on the west bank of the

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, 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

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, was on the original line over the Trent and replaced the terminus,

, on the South Yorkshire Railway, which became Keadby Goods. This station was originally known as Keadby and Althorpe. Althorpe Railway Station New Footbridge

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. The station which now bears the name, became part of the

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during the

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of 1923. The station then passed to the

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in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by

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until the

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ways.

Services

Before the

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ran an hourly service Monday-Saturday in both direction calling here between and . With no service on a Sunday. That was reduced to a

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every 2 hours, again with no services on a Sunday after the 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

service between and also calls here, as does the last corresponding service from Liverpool. In February 2013 the line northeast of

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towards Thorne was blocked by the

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, with all services over the section halted. The line reopened in July 2013.

References

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External links

Station on navigable O.S. map
{{Lincolnshire railway stations Railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1916 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1916 Railway stations served by TransPennine Express Railway stations served by Northern 1866 establishments in England Railway stations on the Isle of Axholme