Cleethorpes railway station
Cleethorpes 
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Cleethorpes railway station in 2012
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| Location | |
| Place | Cleethorpes |
| Local authority | North East Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates | 53°33′45″N 0°01′44″W / 53.5626°N 0.029°WCoordinates: 53°33′45″N 0°01′44″W / 53.5626°N 0.029°W |
| Grid reference | TA306090 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CLE |
| Managed by | First TransPennine Express |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.265 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.240 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.278 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.270 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.260 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 6 April 1863 | opened |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | Former Cleethorpes Railway Station Buildings (1884) |
| Listing grade | Grade II listed |
| Entry number | 1161596 |
| Added to list | 17 September 1980 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cleethorpes from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Cleethorpes railway station is a terminal railway station serving the seaside town of Cleethorpes in north-east Lincolnshire, England. The station is managed and primarily served by First TransPennine Express, and is also served by Northern and East Midlands Trains.
The station opened on Easter Monday, 6 April 1863 when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway extended the line from Grimsby into the town.
The station buildings were constructed in 1884 with refreshment rooms and a clocktower by John Mann Lockerbie and Arthur Wilkinson of Birmingham. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale used the station on 2 July 1885 when he visited Cleethorpes to open the promenade and gardens facing the sea constructed by H.B James CE of Westminster for the railway company.
The station layout was remodelled in 1889 to give six platforms and two carriage sidings extending in the direction of Grimsby. By 1891 the carriage sidings had been increased to six and extended to a new signal box at Suggitt's Lane. This layout also included a turntable to the rear of the signal box. A 1910 report into work carried out the previous year refers to new crossovers to enable trains to arrive and depart from any platform. The signal box by this time had 100 levers and was jointly the third largest on the Great Central system with Marylebone. The original GCR station buildings on platform one were replaced by the current single storey BR-era structures in 1961-2, but they still stand and are now used as train crew accommodation.
Until 1985 the station and surrounding area was still controlled by a mechanical signal box with full semaphore signalling, including double track throughout to Grimsby and beyond. However, a resignalling scheme for the entire area saw the line to Grimsby singled & the number of platforms reduced to four (numbers 1–3 and 5). Platform 5 was renumbered 4 and the Diesel Fuelling Road is what used to be platform 6. The signal box was closed & demolished and new colour light signals installed which were operated from a panel in the signal box at Pasture Street in Grimsby. In later works the platform surfaces have been rebuilt to modern specifications. Since January 2016, all signalling here is supervised from the Rail Operating Centre at York.
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