Celebrate 200 Years of Railway History!

On 27th September 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened the world’s first passenger railway station — a milestone that transformed travel forever. Steam locomotives carried passengers and goods at unprecedented speed, sparking a transport revolution that connected towns, boosted industry, and shaped modern Britain.

This special SideTracked Railway 200 event at
Killingholme Admiralty Platform is part of a nationwide celebration

All finds and hides from this event count towards your SideTracked statistics, and a unique profile badge will be created especially for this event.

Whether your chosen location is old, disused, miniature, or still bustling today, it’s part of a railway story that’s been 200 years in the making.
 

Why not join me near what used to be 
Killingholme Admiralty Platform Railway Station
to watch the sunrise on the Equinox over the Humber Estuary
 

22nd September between 6.30am and 7.00am
To celebrate both Railway 200 and the Equinox Weekend

After the sun has risen, there may be time to do a bit of twitching, as we will also be overlooking Killingholme Haven Pits

If you haven't obtained it already 
There is also an Equinox Souvenir available

Killingholme Admiralty Platform railway station
known locally as Admiralty Platform, was near North Killingholme Haven

The station was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1913 a later addition to the branch line from Goxhill to Immingham Dock, near both the former seaplane base at RNAS Killingholme and the Admiralty oil terminal at North Killingholme Haven.

Like its neighbour, Killingholme, Admiralty Platform had a single, straight, wooden platform with minimal facilities.
These were still intact when a RCTS Special called four years after closure on 7 October 1967.

The station was unusual in several respects:

• although opened primarily to serve a naval base it was a public station, at least outside wartime

• It evaded OS maps
  (although I have found it marked on an old Bartholomew map
  
  

• It evaded timetables

• It evaded Signalling Record Society records

and

• no tickets were thought to survive, but an example has now been found
   

The station closed on 17 June 1963 along with the other stations on the line
(Although the line has been disused for many years, I have seen trains cross the road as a youngster)

There is a large river nearby for those who wish to arrive by boat
and I will bring a snack of some sort