A Class 116 first-generation DMU has just arrived at New Holland Pier with the 14.00 from Cleethorpes with the crew no preparing it for its return departure. The driver looks as though he is just finishing up in his cab but has yet to switch the tail lights on. Until a few years before this photograph was taken, there were two further tracks at this, the extreme end of the pier. The track to the left provided additional platform capacity with the short centre siding used for the storage of a few coal wagons with the fuel used to fire the various steam ferries that plied the route between here and Hull Corporation pier. Following the withdrawal of the final steam ferry, the MV Lincoln Castle in 1978 (replaced by the diesel-powered MV Farringford) the sidings were removed.
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