Scunthorpe has had somewhat a changeable site situation for its railway station with the current one being the third main one that was opened as late as 11th March 1928. The bay platform would have been constructed to handle traffic running at that period of time.
The original station known as Frodingham was opened in 1864 about half a mile away from the site of the current station and this was then replaced in turn in 1887 by the second station known as Scunthorpe and Frodingham 200 yards away from the first station.
This is quite correct although the main building of the second station survived in use as offices and the guard's signing on point until shortly before demolition in 1971 (despite the earlier removal of the platforms and up side building to accommodate reallignments and what became known as the Western Curve) for the construction of the power box, S&T workshop and area manager's office building.
Within the area bounded by the triangle of lines formed after the construction of the Western Curve was a fourth passenger station (actually the third in order of building) known as Scunthorpe as opposed to Frodingham & Scunthorpe or vice versa and was in use as such between 1906 and 1925 for train services to Winterton & Thealby, extended to Winteringham in 1907 and ultimately to Whitton in 1910. The building still stands but in a derelict state adjacent to the LNER built goods offices although, as I recall from my days as an apprentice at Frodingham during the mid 1970s, was by then being used as offices and mess room for the permanent way staff but I would be open to correction about this last point as to specific use.
For all of this the railway at Scunthorpe, having seen significant development during the second half of the 1920s and into the 1930s, was perhaps something of a rarity: an almost complete LNER scheme replacing much of the inherited pre-grouping infrastructure.
