GETTING AROUND

By rail:
Excellent rail connections put Northern Lincolnshire within easy reach of anywhere in the UK.
The North East Trans-Pennine Railway links Scunthorpe, Crowle and Barnetby to the East Coast Main Line at Doncaster giving easy access to London and the north.
Grimsby and Cleethorpes are served by frequent regular direct and single change passenger services to destinations in the North and Midlands giving links to most major cities.
Freight-only rail lines connect Grimsby and Immingham and specialist fright terminals with the main rail network. The area is the busiest for rail freight in the UK.

By road:
Fast, free flowing motorways give easy access to the main road network through the M180 and M18.
Within just four hours of northern Lincolnshire lies a potential UK market of 40 million customers and suppliers.
Both motorways connect northern Lincolnshire directly to the M62 trans-Pennine link, the A1 and M1.

By air:

ROBIN HOOD AIRPORT

Built on the site of the former RAF Finningley, near Doncaster, which was declared surplus to RAF requirements, Robin Hood is Britain’s newest purpose-built international airport. The RAF ended its Finningley connection in April 1996. Three years later, in June 1999, Peel Holdings purchased the site with the view to turning it into a commercial airport serving 2.3m passengers and 62,000 tonnes of freight.



Robin Hood airport began operations in April 2005 and since then its expansion has been massive – over one million passengers are expected to use it this year.

The runway at Robin Hood Airport measures almost 3,000m long by 60m wide - second only to Manchester in the North of England and easily capable of supporting any type of commercial aircraft
At present flights to over 40 destinations are available, the latest being a four times weekly service to Gdansk, Poland.

Recently announced, transatlantic flights are those to Canada, Pakistan, Florida, and Mexico.

The Top Five Routes from Robin Hood Airport since opening are:

1. Dublin
2. Alicante
3. Malaga
4. Prague
5. Jersey

Looking ahead, the airport aims to cater for 2.3 million passengers and 50,000 tonnes of freight each year.

Humberside Airport

Humberside Airport is situated in the heart of Northern Lincolnshire, is based on the former RAF bomber drome at Kirmington.

Developed over the past 30 years as a regional airport it now offers excellent facilities, a large number of charter flights to favourite European holiday destinations and daily connections to world air links through Amsterdam.
Major expansion has been announced through the airport’s master plan which proposes to increase jobs on the site to 1,040 by 2016.

Other targets include:

• Doubling the number of passengers to around one million a year by 2016


• Increasing air freight business particularly in support of regional specialities like perishable food products


• Maintaining all development within the existing site without the need for a runway extension


• Investing significantly to improve and enlarge its terminal and operational infrastructure

In the summer months you can travel to 22 European destinations from Humberside Airport.

Flights between April1 and October 31 are to:

Aberdeen
Amsterdam
Antalya (Turkey)
Bodrum (Turkey)
Bourgas (Bulgaria)
Crete (Greek Islands)
Dalaman (Turkey)
Faro (Portugal)
Fuerteventura (Canary Islands)
Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)
Guernsey
Ibiza (Balearic Islands)
Jersey (Channel Islands)
Lanzarote (Canary Islands)
Larnaca (Cyprus)
Madeira
Majorca (Balearic Islands)
Menorca (Balearic Islands)
Naples (Italy)
Tenerife (Canary Islands)
Verona (Italy)


There are winter flights to 12 destinations. They operate between November 1 and March 31 to:
Aberdeen
Alicante (Spain)
Amsterdam
Enontekio (Finland - Lapland)
Innsbruck (Austria)
Kittila (Finland - Lapland)
Lanzarote (Canary Islands)
Madeira
Malta
Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
Rovaniemi (Finland - Lapland)
Tenerife (Canary Islands)

For more information call Tel: (01652) 688456

http://www.robinhoodairport.com

http://www.humbersideairport.com


THE HUMBER BRIDGE

For a time it was the longest single span suspension bridge in the world. Times have changed and the Humber crossing is now the fourth largest of its kind. But still the Humber Bridge remains an internationally acclaimed masterpiece of civil engineering.

The campaign to build a crossing of the Humber estuary began over 100 years before the bridge was opened by the Queen on July 17 1981.



Until then the river had been a physical barrier to trade and development with only a regular ferry service providing a link between the two banks.

After decades of plans and discussion the Humber Bridge Act, which gave approval for the creation of a suspension bridge, was finally passed in 1959 although another 13 years would pass before work began.
Construction took place over eight years and at times as many as 1,000 workers were involved.

It's a fact:

• The Humber Bridge has a centre span of 4,626 ft


• Each tower consists of a pair of hollow vertical concrete columns, each 510 ft tall


• The bridge is designed to tolerate constant motion and bends more than three metres in winds of 80 mph. The towers, although both vertical, are not parallel, being 36 mm further apart at the top than the bottom as a result of the curvature of the earth.


• The north tower is on the river bank and has foundations down to 26 ft. The south tower is in the water, and descends to 118 ft as a consequence of the shifting sandbanks that make up the estuary.


• There is enough wire in the suspension cables to circle the Earth one and a half times.


• The road-distance between Hull and Grimsby was reduced by nearly 50 miles as a consequence of the bridge.


• The road-distance between Hull and Grimsby was reduced by nearly 50 miles as a consequence of the bridge.


• A total of 480,000 tonnes of concrete were used to build the bridge