Immingham Dock was opened on 17 November 1913[5] by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the River Humber.

In order to get their workers from Kingston upon Hull, Barton upon Humber, New Holland and surrounding villages to the dock the company built the Barton and Immingham Light Railway, which terminated at the temporary Immingham Western Jetty railway station[6] near to the curving embankment which carried trains up to the Western Jetty itself.

The July 1922 Bradshaw's Guide shows Immingham Western jetty as the line's terminus,[7] whilst a photograph of a locomotive in Great Central livery using the permanent replacement Immingham Dock station[8] suggests the handover took place around 1922.

[15] Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of Goxhill, passing through East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham.

The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch on 17 June 1963 because a service which had been provided since at least 1954[16] via Ulceby was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trains[14] to publicly timetabled passenger trains.