The "Grimsby and New Holland Railway" (part of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway) opened in 1848; Ulceby railway station opened the same year, around west of the village. By 1886 the village had a school, post office, Methodist chapels and consisted of around twenty dwellings scattered mostly along Greengate Road, Town Street and School Road. By the turn of the 20th century the Cross Keys Inn had been built west of the traditional village centre, and by the 1930s a limited amount, less than 20 dwellings, of additional housing had been built.