Althorpe  | |||||
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 Entrance to the station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Althorpe,North Lincolnshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°35′08″N0°43′59″W / 53.58557°N 0.73300°W /53.58557; -0.73300 | ||||
| Grid reference | SE839106 | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | ALP | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Great Central Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1 October 1866 | Station opens | ||||
| 21 May 1916 | Station resited | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  9,752 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  2,048 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 4,488 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1,408 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 3,294 | ||||
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Althorpe railway station serves thevillage ofAlthorpe inNorth Lincolnshire, England. Thestation is also very close to the villages ofKeadby,Gunness andBurringham.
Most services are provided byNorthern Trains who operate the station. Occasional services byTransPennine Express 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 andBritish Transport Police 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.[1]
The station is on the west bank of theRiver Trent, to the west of the combined road-and-rail King George V Bridge, which was a lifting bridge until the late 1950s.
The first Althorpe station, opened by theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, was on the original line over the Trent and replaced the terminus,Keadby, on the South Yorkshire Railway, which became Keadby Goods. This station was originally known asKeadby and Althorpe.
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.[2]
The station which now bears the name, became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway during theGrouping of 1923. The station then passed to theEastern Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948.
WhenSectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served byRegional Railways until thePrivatisation of British Railways.
Before theCOVID-19 pandemic,Northern Trains ran an hourly service Monday-Saturday in both direction calling here betweenDoncaster andScunthorpe. With no service on a Sunday.[3]
That was reduced to arail replacement bus service every two hours, again with no services on a Sunday after the pandemic. In the winter 2022 timetable, the rail service has been reinstated, but is still on a two-hourly service pattern as of 2025.
A Monday-Saturday early morningTransPennine Express service betweenCleethorpes andLiverpool Lime Street also calls here, as does the last corresponding service from Liverpool.[4]
In February 2013 the line northeast ofHatfield and Stainforth station towards Thorne was blocked by theHatfield Colliery landslip, with all services over the section halted. The line reopened in July 2013.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Northern Trains Monday-Saturday only | ||||
| TransPennine Express Limited Service | ||||
