Peterborough to Lincoln Line

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Legend To Doncaster Lincoln Central Metheringham Ruskington To Grantham Sleaford To Skegness Helpringham Donington Road Gosberton Pinchbeck Spalding Littleworth St James Deeping Peakirk To Grantham Peterborough To Stevenage and London All minor stations closed on Sundays

The Peterborough to Lincoln Line is a railway line linking Peterborough and Lincoln Central, via Sleaford and Spalding.^[1]

History

The section between Peterborough and Spalding closed to passengers on 5 October 1970 and re-opened on 7 June 1971. North of Spalding, Ruskington re-opened on 5 May 1975. Metheringham followed on 6 October 1975.^{[citation needed]}

Intermediate stations south of Sleaford did not re-open; See Diagram. There has been agitation by local communities to re-open Littleworth on a park-and-ride basis for Peterborough.

Description

The towns and villages served by the route are listed below.

• Peterborough
• Spalding
• Sleaford
  • connections with Grantham to Skegness Line
• Ruskington
• Metheringham
• Lincoln

The route has a regular role as a diversionary route for trains from the East Coast Main Line.^{[citation needed]}

The line has a regular weekday daytime service but is closed between Sleaford & Spalding in the evenings (due to the high staffing costs associated with the large number of manned level crossings on this section) and has no Sunday service.

Infrastructure

The line is not electrified.

Incidents

On 6 December 2004 two people died in a collision between a car and a class 153 DMU on a user operated crossing south east of Helpringham.^[2]

Proposed Developments

In October 2008, Network Rail obtained funding for the £233 million upgrade of the line to allow frequent passenger and freight traffic to use the line and free up paths on the East Coast Main Line.^{[citation needed]}

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