Trains at Lincoln Central | 08/04/19

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An incredible afternoon at Lincoln Central (High Street crossing) on Monday 8th April 2019.

Lincoln Central info:

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.

Lincoln Central has been the only station in Lincoln since the closure of Lincoln St. Marks in 1985. However, like 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.

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

Platform layout and services:

Train services run between Lincoln Central and

Newark North Gate & Leicester via Newark Castle and Nottingham using the Nottingham–Lincoln line ("Midland line");

Leeds & Sheffield via Retford and direct to Doncaster via the Doncaster–Lincoln line ("Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Line").

Peterborough & Sleaford via the Peterborough–Lincoln line ("Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Line")

Grimsby Town via Market Rasen, with occasional journeys to 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.

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.
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.)