New Holland railway station is a single-platform

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which serves the village of New Holland in

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. The station is situated on the Barton line west of , and all trains serving it are operated by

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History

The original station, named , was built by the

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(MS&LR) and was situated a few yards towards the

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at the landward end of New Holland Pier, a jetty, some in length which served a ferry service to Hull. At the pier head was situated

New Holland Pier railway station New Holland Pier railway station is a former railway terminus in North Lincolnshire, England. It stood at the seaward end of the New Holland Pier, which juts northwards into the Humber estuary at the village of New Holland, North Lincolnshire, ...

. As one of the early aims of the MS&LR was to reach Hull the pierhead at New Holland became its "Up" terminus. This was later changed to

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on completion of the "London Extension" to

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. Because of these early aims the railway company bought out the rights of the New Holland Ferry. These rights transferred to the

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, the

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and, on nationalisation,

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ways. The ferry service was closed on the opening of the

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in June 1981 and the New Holland Pier railway station closed. The present day railway station at New Holland opened to serve the community, replacing the original which closed on the same day. New Holland was a railway community, the majority of the housing being built by the company to house its workers. It played an important part in railway life for it was here that the railway company laundry was situated and special laundry vans brought the soiled washing from the company's stations, restaurant cars and hotels. Also centred here were the company's wagon sheet repair shops, skills used in the repair of sails could be put to a railway use. Yarborough Hotel was rebuilt (replacing a hotel bought in 1845) in 1851 for MS&LR. It was included in adverts for LNER hotels in 1936, but was sold before nationalisation, being advertised for sale in 1947.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has limited amenities (just a waiting shelter, bench seat and timetable poster board on the single wood platform). Tickets have to be purchased in advance or on the train. Level access is available between the station entrance and platform.

Services

All services at New Holland are operated by

using DMUs. The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction between and . On Sundays, the station is served by four trains per day in each direction during the summer months only. No services call at the station on Sundays during the winter months.

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{{Lincolnshire railway stations Railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire DfT Category F1 stations Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1981 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Former Northern franchise railway stations