Weelsby Road Halt railway station

Weelsby Road Halt
Location
Place	Weelsby
Area	North East Lincolnshire
Grid reference	TA275081
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
11 December 1905	Opened
1 January 1940	Last train
10 March 1952	Official closure
December 1980	Closure of line
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Weelsby Road Halt was a railway halt on the East Lincolnshire Railway which served the Weelsby Road area of eastern Grimsby in Lincolnshire between 1905 and 1940. The station was opened as part of a new motor train service between Grimsby and Louth. It was the site of major works in 1933 when a plate girder bridge was constructed to replace a level crossing, enabling road traffic to pass underneath through a subway. The station closed in 1952 following a period of temporary closure during the Second World War. The line through Weelsby remained open for freight until December 1980. The trackbed was later reused by Humberside County Council to construct the A16 Peaks Parkway which now runs through the site. Building of the road put an end to the aspirations of the Great Northern and East Lincolnshire Railway plc (now the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway) to reopen the line as a heritage railway.

The station was opened on 11 December 1905 to coincide with the introduction of a motor train service on the East Lincolnshire Railway by the Great Northern Railway. It consisted of two low facing halt platforms to the south of a level crossing over Weelsby Road within the Grimsby town boundary. A small single-storey timber waiting shelter was provided on the up platform, opposite which was a signal box to control the crossing. A crossing keeper's cottage, similar in style to others on the line, lay to the north of the crossing.

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