Disused Stations: Lincoln St. Matks Station

Station Name: LINCOLN ST. MARKS

Date opened:

4.8.1846

Location:

On west side of High Street

Company on opening:

Midland Railway

Date closed to passengers:

13.5.1985

Date closed completely:

13.5.1985

Company on closing:

British Rail (Eastern Region)

Present state:

The platforms have been demolished but the main station building has been incorporated into a new shopping complex. One of the originasl stations signs has been mounted on a mock signal box built nearby.

County:

Lincolnshire

OS Grid Ref:

SK973707

Date of visit:

April 1987 & 6.11.2006

Notes: The station was opened as Lincoln, St. Marks was added from 25.9.1950. There was originally had an overall roof which was removed in 1957. The station was closed to make way for a new shopping complex but before closure a new 80 metres section of track had to be laid to allow trains from Newark to reach Lincoln Central.

After closure the area was derelict for a year but before demolition, an archaeological team moved onto the site to excavate the area between the tracks which had been the site of a monastery

A station sign has been incorporated into a mock signal box in the new shopping complex.

For more photographs of Lincoln St. Marks see Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire Transport Review web site

A Cleepthorpes DMU waits at Lincoln St. Mark's Station in August 1981.
Photo by Alan Moore

DMU's at Lincoln St. Mark's Station in 1984
Photo John Law from his Everything on Rails web site

Lincoln St. Mark's Station in April 1986
Photo by Nick Catford

Lincoln St. Mark's Station in August 1992
Photo by Martin Latus

The site of Lincoln St. Marks Station from a similar viewpoint to the picture above in November 2005. The main station building has been retained as part of a shopping complex, it can be seen to the right of the memorial
Photo by Mark Dyson

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:[Source: Nick Catford]

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