Lincoln train station

You can reach 75 stations directly from Lincoln on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Hykeham, with 68 trains a day.

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Address: St Marys Street, Lincoln, LN5 7EW

Lincoln is the nearest station for postcodes in LN2, LN3. Check your own postcode.

75 direct destinations
259th busiest in Britain
Staffed part time
Step-free throughout
38 parking spaces
22 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Lincoln

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

Destination	Weekday	Saturday	Sunday
Hykeham	68	64	45
Newark Castle	61	57	30
Nottingham	61	57	30
Beeston	53	52	24
Collingham	53	49	45
Derby	51	51	24
Long Eaton	51	51	24
Gainsborough Lea Road	43	43	27
Peterborough	43	42	9
Saxilby	43	43	27
Lowdham	41	35	28
Fiskerton	37	33	11
Swinderby	36	33	24
Carlton	34	31	28
Darnall	33	33	27
Kiveton Bridge	33	33	27
Kiveton Park	33	33	27
Retford	33	33	27
Sheffield	33	33	27
Shireoaks	33	33	27
Woodhouse	33	33	27
Worksop	33	33	27
Burton Joyce	32	30	11
Metheringham	30	31	0
Ruskington	30	31	0
Spalding	30	29	0
Sleaford	29	31	0
Ambergate	27	28	23
Belper	27	28	23
Duffield	27	28	23
Spondon	27	31	24
Barnsley Interchange	26	26	12
Cromford	26	27	23
Leeds	26	26	0
Matlock	26	27	23
Meadowhall Interchange	26	26	12
Matlock Bath	26	27	23
Wakefield Kirkgate	26	26	0
Whatstandwell	26	27	23
Attenborough	25	23	24

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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How busy Lincoln station is

2,286,040 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 259th busiest station in Great Britain.

A further 19,773 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.

More journeys run between Lincoln and London Kings Cross than any other pair: 268,196 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 59 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 21%. Saturday runs to 72.

Nearest other stations

Hykeham 3.3 miles
Saxilby 5.9 miles
Swinderby 7.8 miles
Metheringham 8.6 miles
Collingham 10.4 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Lincoln, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

Lincoln St. Marks · 0.2 miles
Bracebridge · 1.9 miles
Skellingthorpe · 2.4 miles
Washingborough · 2.5 miles
Skellingthorpe · 3.1 miles
Branston and Heighington · 3.4 miles

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Facilities at Lincoln station

Lincoln is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:15 to 19:30 · Saturday: 05:15 to 19:30 · Sunday: 10:45 to 21:10

Toilets

Parking at Lincoln station

Station Car Park 38 spaces, 2 accessible
£6.10 off-peak, £9.50 a day, £28.50 a week

Cycle parking: 198 spaces (sheltered, compounds).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 23 August 2026.

Getting to Lincoln station

Lincoln station is in Lincoln, East Midlands, and is run by East Midlands Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M180 J4 (Broughton Interchange), 22.0 miles north.

22 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Rail Station Car Park.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Lincoln station elsewhere

National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
Wikipedia the station's history
OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from