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Spalding to Lincoln & Nottingham to Skegness
 
East Midland Trains class 153310 on a train to Lincoln on the 5th of May 2014
 
East Midland Trains class 153310 on a train to Lincoln from Peterborough on the 5th of May 2014
 
Sleaford railway station in the 2014 still looked much as it did in LNER days a part from the signals and steam. There is a lack of station staft when the booking office is not open.  In the 1980s and 1990s Sleaford station and the joint line from Spalding to Lincoln was slowly being left to die. The removal of station buildings with bus shelters, never did happen at Sleaford station.
 
Things are looking up as the Sleaford avoiding line has being reopened. The signal boxes and level crossing gates along the line from Peterborough to Spalding are being replaced with remote operated barriers from the York signaling centre in the years to come. Sleaford north signal box and its level crossing gates have already been replaced in 2014. The box was still standing in early May 2014 but for how much longer.
 
East Midland Trains class 156415 comes into Sleaford station on the 5th of May 2014.
 
East Midland Trains class 156415 comes into Sleaford station on the 5th of May 2014 with a train from Npttingham to Skegness.
 
Note the weeds
 
Sleaford station is on the Nottingham to Skegness line which runs west to east. Trains on the Peterborough to Spalding to Lincoln line also use this station that runs north to south. The Spalding trains come off the GN&GE line at Sleaford south juction and join the Skegness line at Sleaford East juction just to the east of the station. To get get back on the Lincoln line trains travel west to Sleaford west juction and then rejoin the Lincoln line at Sleaford North juction.
 
There is an avoiding line east of the town that let trains from Spalding to Lincoln bypass Sleaford. This went out of use for a number of years and all Spalding Lincoln freight trains had to come though the station. This avoiding line was never pulled up and one line has now been reopened, so that some of the freight trains off the ECML can use this to open up more paths between Peterborough and Doncaster on the ECML.
 
East Midland Trains class 153308 comes from Lincon into Sleaford
 
East Midland Trains class 153308 comes from Lincon into Sleaford
 
Sleaford is on the line from Nottingham to Boston in the town of Sleaford. Passenger trains between Peterborough and Lincoln leave the Great Eastern joint line at Sleaford South Junction to call at Sleaford station, be for then returning to the Great Eastern joint line via Sleaford West Junction and then Sleaford North Junction.
 
Be for the avoiding line was reopened in 2014 all trains on the Great Eastern joint line had to use Sleaford station.
 
Sleaford station in 2014
 
Sleaford station in 2014 between trains showing the footbridge and canopy on platform 1.
 
Sleaford station in 2014 platform 2 and 3
 
Sleaford station in 2014 between trains showing platform 2 and 3 .
 
Sleaford station showing platform 1 from the western end.
 
Sleaford station showing platform 1 from the western end.
 
The next page at Sleaford is Sleaford in 2012 .
 
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Sleaford station is on the Nottingham to Boston and Skegness line.Passenger trains on the railway line from Peterborough to Spalding  Sleaford and Lincoln and Doncaster on the Great Nothern loop use Sleaford station turning off the GN&GER line at Sleaford South Juction and return at Sleaford North Juction. The Direct line between the south and North juction was closed for many years but is now reopened.
Sleaford Signal Boxes
 
 
 
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