Lincoln Central railway station serves Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. The building was designed in 1848 for the Great Northern Railway by J H Taylor.
There are five platforms at the station, numbered 3 to 7:
Platforms 1 and 2 no longer exist; these were filled in a number of years ago to allow the station's car park to be expanded.
Platforms 3 and 4 are bay platforms used for stabling units and for services to the east, usually to Peterborough, and occasionally to Grimsby and Cleethorpes.
Platform 5, nearest the station entrance, serves all terminating arrivals and through services from the west and is also occasionally used for eastbound services originating from Lincoln.
Platforms 6 and 7 serve terminating arrivals from the east and all westbound departures (to Nottingham and Newark North Gate via the "Midland" line and to Sheffield and Doncaster leaving via the "Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Line").
Although many passengers believe that platform 6 is always used by trains towards Newark and Nottingham, and platform 7 is always used by trains towards Gainsborough, Sheffield and Doncaster, this is not actually true. Under normal circumstances the practice is to use platform 6 for all westbound departures with platform 7 only being used as necessary.
Platform 6 is also used when carriages need to be attached to or detached from westbound trains as it is straight; the curvature of platform 7 can cause problems with modern autocouplers.
Platform 7 is mostly used for westbound trains which wait at Lincoln for some time, hence its regular use by many Northern Rail services but also sees use for through trains when platform 6 is being used for attaching or detaching carriages.
Platform 8 is still present but the track has been lifted and the platform itself is no longer used for any railway purpose.
Lincoln Central is now the only station in Lincoln, after the closure of Lincoln St. Marks in 1985.
It has had celebrities pass by. Including Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow by filming scenes for the romantic drama Possessions in 2000.
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