THE DOCKS AND INDUSTRIAL SOUTH HUMBERSIDE

Despite it being built by the Great Central Railway, the first passengers to Immingham Dock were hauled by a contractor's loco. The dock opened in 1912.

The first five vessels are seen in Immingham Dock.

Even into the 1980s, Immingham had some lovely GCR lower quadrant signals.

The LNER took over the GCR in 1923, includng the loco shed.

Now for two views of the shed area in 1979. The coaling stage was still standing!

A final view of Immingham shed, October 1992 (Richard Huggins).

We now head across country, almost doubling back on ourselves, to the GCR station at Healing.

Next station westwards along the line is Stallingborough, with its traditional signal box still in use in 2004.

There's an upmarket pub at Stallingborough, the Thatchers Inn.

We're still in a westerly direction and soon come to Habrough station. It was a busy place in the early 1970s.

The signal box survived until at least 1985, when this photo was taken.

Beside the station is the Station Hotel, a good place to rest awhile, at least until the next post.