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Peterborough to Lincoln Line

Peterborough–Lincoln line
Lincoln MMB 02 Peterborough to Lincoln Line.jpg
The line heads away from Lincoln toward Sleaford
Overview
Type Heavy rail
System National Rail
Status Operational
Locale East Midlands
Termini Peterborough
Lincoln
Stations 6
Operation
Owner Network Rail
Operator(s) East Midlands Trains
Rolling stock Class 153 Super Sprinter
Class 156 Super Sprinter
Technical
Line length ~24 mi (39 km)
Number of tracks Two
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification 25 kV AC OHLE (part of the ECML at Peterborough)

The Peterborough–Lincoln line (marketed as The Redwing Line) is a railway line linking Peterborough and Lincoln Central, via Sleaford and Spalding.

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.

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. In 2016 this was costed at £4.3 million as it would need a footbridge and car parking availability.

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

After an upgrade in 2015, the route through to Lincoln (and beyond to Doncaster) has a regular role as a diversionary route for trains from the East Coast Main Line mostly for slower freight services, but occasionally for passenger trains too. As a result the route is now open 24 hours per day.

The line is not electrified. The line is controlled by Lincoln signalling centre from Werrington Junction to Lincoln, worked under track circuit block regulations (TCB). However, Sleaford East box remains for now: resignalling is due around 2019/2020, when the whole area will switch to York rail operating centre (ROC) along with Lincoln signalling centre.

One person died and 30 people were injured in the Nocton rail accident when a train hit a vehicle on the tracks at the site of a removed bridge, on 28 February 2002.

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.


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