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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• 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.

and 35 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Lincoln

Lincoln is on the Sheffield to Lincoln Line and the Peterborough to Lincoln Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Lincoln station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Lincoln station on 631 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 111 paths on the Wednesday, 89 paths on the Saturday and 10 paths on the Sunday. 84 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 08:00 to 09:00 on the Tuesday, with 13 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

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: 58 stations instead of 75, a drop of about 23%. Saturday runs to 67.

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

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