1. History

2. Platform layout and services

3. Types of trains

4. Development Work
    Resignalling  Current and future development 

5. Future services

6. Accidents and incidents

7. References

8. Further reading

9. External links

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Lincoln Central railway station serves the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT) train operating company. East Midlands Trains provides the majority of services, supplemented by Northern and London North Eastern Railway.

The station is part of the PlusBus scheme, where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving. Lincoln Central bus station, the city's main bus station, is within a couple of minutes' walk from the railway station, located to the north-east of the station, on the opposite side of St. Mary's Street and easily accessed via a pedestrian crossing and pedestrianised plaza.

History

The station buildings were designed by John Henry Taylor of London in 1848, for the Great Northern Railway company. It is built in a Tudor revival style of yellow brick, with stone dressings and slate roofs, with 6 ridge and 8 side wall stacks.^[1]

Lincoln Central has been the only station in Lincoln since the closure of {{stnlnk|Lincoln St. Marks}} in 1985.^[2] However, like {{stnlink|Rotherham Central}}, it has retained its "Central" suffix.

In late 2010, East Midlands Trains announced that it intended to develop an improved customer service area and improve the café and toilets.^[3]

Platform layout and services

Train services run between Lincoln Central and

• {{stnlnk|Newark North Gate}} & {{stnlnk|Leicester}} via {{stnlnk|Newark Castle}} and {{stnlnk|Nottingham}} using the Nottingham–Lincoln line ("Midland line");
• {{stnlnk|Leeds}} & {{stnlnk|Sheffield}} via {{stnlnk|Retford}} and direct to {{stnlnk|Doncaster}} via the Doncaster–Lincoln line ("Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Line").
• {{stnlnk|Peterborough}} & {{stnlnk|Sleaford}} via the Peterborough–Lincoln line ("Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Line")
• {{stnlnk|Grimsby Town}} via {{stnlnk|Market Rasen}}, with occasional journeys to {{stnlnk|Cleethorpes}}

There is also a once-daily service (Monday to Saturday) to London St Pancras operated by East Midlands Trains, and another to London King's Cross operated by London North Eastern Railway.

There are five platforms at the station, numbered 1–5:

• Platforms 1 and 2 are bay platforms used for daytime stabling of trains and for terminating arrivals from the east which will return east (trains arriving from the east which will form westbound services will be routed into one of the through platforms).
• Platforms 3, 4 and 5 are bidirectional through platforms used for services on all routes. All three through platforms are used in whichever way is most operationally advantageous.
• Platform 3 is the platform face adjacent the main station building and is nearest to the station entrance. The ticket barriers, buffet/shop, a waiting room, accessible toilet and staff facilities are all sited on platform 3.
• Platforms 4 and 5 are the two faces of the island platform. Passenger waiting rooms and toilets are on the island platform, as is the staff conference room.

Lincoln Central station is also home to an East Midlands Trains train crew depot; trains are stabled overnight in any or all of the platforms as operationally convenient.

Types of trains

East Midland Trains operates Class 153, Class 156 and Class 158 DMUs on the local services, with Class 222 DEMUs operating the daily service to London St Pancras. Occasionally 222 DEMUs are also used on the Leicester to Lincoln services when a DMU is not available.

Northern services are usually operated by Class 158 DMUs however other units can occasionally appear, such as 142s, 144s or 150s.

The daily London North Eastern Railway service is operated by a HST.

From 2019, Northern will be introducing new Class 195 Civity

trains to replace the 142s and 144s.

Lincoln Central also annually sees multiple charter trains throughout the year, particularly for the Lincoln Christmas Market

Development Work

Resignalling

Network Rail instituted a major resignalling scheme for Lincoln Central during the years 2007–2008 which saw:

• the replacement of the semaphore signals with colour light signals,
• the concentration of all signalling control into one signal box rather than the previous four,
• track relaying, and ballasting
• new points and crossovers which allow all three through platforms at Lincoln to be used in both directions and allows trains from the east to enter the two bay platforms (1 & 2) directly.^[4]

As a direct result, terminating trains no longer need to shunt from one side of the station to the other to take up their return workings, reducing turnaround times for terminating trains and improve train service punctuality and reliability.

As part of the overall scheme, Lincoln Central's platforms have been renumbered from 3–7 to 1–5: (the current platform 1 was previously platform 3, 2 was 4 etc.)

All four existing signal boxes - High Street, East Holmes, West Holmes and Pelham Street Junction - were closed and replaced by a new state of the art signalling centre near the West Holmes box. Pelham Street and West Holmes boxes were demolished, but the High Street and East Holmes boxes are listed buildings and are preserved.

Current and future development

Lincoln Central is included in the Lincoln Transport Hub redevelopment scheme, with aims to improve connectivity between bus and rail services in Lincoln by the construction of a new bus station adjacent to the railway station, alongside improvements to the railway station itself, including a new pedestrianised plaza outside the main entrance on St Mary's Street. Construction of the Transport Hub commenced in August 2016 and was completed in January 2018.^[5]

There are also plans for improvements to the railway station itself, alongside the construction of a new footbridge over the railway line from Tentercroft Street into the city centre to increase the connectivity of the city centre on foot and by cycle.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

In addition to this, there is currently construction of a coffee shop within the station premises.

Future services

For many years, Lincoln had not been served with a direct rail service to London. However, the awarding of two new rail franchises saw this remedied.

On 14 August 2007, it was announced that National Express East Coast (NXEC) would take over the InterCity East Coast franchise in December 2007. As part of the commitment, NXEC planned to introduce a two-hourly service between Lincoln Central and London King's Cross, starting in 2009. This service would have alternated with a two-hourly service to {{stnlnk|York}}.^[6][7] The InterCity East Coast Franchise was passed to East Coast in November 2009.

In late 2009 East Coast along with NetworkRail published details of the ECML proposed new timetable, including the Lincoln-London services. In spring 2010 it was announced that this new service would be cut back. East Coast, citing financial restraints during the credit crunch, announced instead just one direct train in each direction per day, with extra services running only as far as Newark North Gate station, meaning Lincoln passengers will still have to change trains there.^[8] On 22 May 2011 East Coast started direct Lincoln-London Kings Cross services, albeit in a much reduced number than they had originally planned. There is one train a day to London leaving Lincoln at 07:30 Monday-Friday and 07:33 on Saturday, there is no East Coast Service to London on a Sunday. The return service leaves London at 19:06 Monday-Friday, 18.08 on Saturday, and 19.08 on Sunday. The operation passed over to Virgin Trains East Coast in early 2015 and as of June 2018 the King's Cross service is now operated by London North Eastern Railway.

In addition to the London North Eastern Railway service, East Midlands Trains operate one train per day Monday-Saturday from Lincoln Central to London St Pancras, and a return journey is made in the evening. Monday-Saturday, the East Midlands Trains service to London St Pancras leaves Lincoln Central at 07.05, and the return journey leaves London St Pancras at 18.05 Monday-Friday, and on a Saturday the service leaves at 17.08.

The new Northern franchise started in April 2016 had service improvements on the Lincoln line - the service frequency to Sheffield & Retford was increased to twice hourly (and to hourly on Sundays), whilst the Lincoln Central to Sheffield service was incorporated into Arriva Rail North's Northern Connect regional network and extended to {{rws|Leeds}} via Barnsley.^[9]

In 2006, Humber & City, an open-access operator owned by Renaissance Trains, proposed running services between {{stnlnk|Cleethorpes}} and {{stn|Stratford}} via Lincoln Central. Nothing concrete seems to have come of the proposal.

Nottinghamshire County Council, the Department for Transport and Network Rail are in discussion about various improvements to the line towards Nottingham including a doubling of service.^[10]

Accidents and incidents

• On 4 June 1962, an express passenger train was derailed due to excessive speed on a curve. Three people were killed and 49 were injured.^[11][12]

References

Further reading

• {{cite magazine|title=Lincoln: City of surprises!|first=John|last=Hunt|magazine=RAIL|issue=318|publisher=EMAP Apex Publications|date=19 November – 2 December 1997|pp=24–31|issn=0953-4563|oclc=49953699}}

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