Cleethorpes

CRS Code	CLE
Collected date	23/08/11

Cleethorpes is one of those great British seaside resorts of the past that now look slightly past their best, and like Blackpool and Skegness has an enormous station which is now rather too grand for the railway's needs. I arrived from Grimsby Town just as the sky got greyer and the rain began to fall...

Arriving on platform 1, first looking north along the line and then looking south towards the end of the line:

The station building canopy:

Further down the platform, looking north. The buildings aren't in passenger use but there's a shelter with an automatic door:

These windows on platform 1 show that the station building is now partly a pub:

A longer view of the station buildings from the other side of the tracks:

The station building seen from the road:

The central part of the building, presumably once the entrance, is now boarded up:

The front of the pub:

The road to the front of the pub leads into the station car park, just west of the railway lines:

The ridged canopy area covers what now functions as the main station concourse:

Looking back along platforms 2 and 3 from the end of the line. The station signs advise of industrial action that would prevent me exploring the rest of the line to Barton-on-Humber that week:

And after that the rest is disused platform edges, cracked and littered with weeds, although at least the track is still there:

A railway building between the station and the sea provides "track snacks":

Moving round to the side of the station se see this iron-worked building:

And the clock tower looming above the entrance to the station from the small road to its south:

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