It's hard to believe that 30 years has gone by since St. Mark's closed back in 1985 on 11th May.
A Class 47 locomotive hauled passenger train ready to depart, probably on a London to Cleethorpes service, in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Barriers had replaced gates on the High Street level crossing.
A 1930s view of St. Mark's when passengers using the station still enjoyed the benefit of an overall roof.
This station was Lincoln's first, called the Midland Station until after Nationalisation when it was called Lincoln St. Marks. The railway line from Nottingham to here was offically opened on Monday 3rd August 1846 with regular services commencing the day after. There was a great deal of excitement surrounding this new infrastructure for the city, but the station itself was not ready. It was built of Yorkshire stone, and required the line to be operational to bring the material into Lincoln for the construction.
In 1848 a new line was opened, which came in from the north-east of the county, by The Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway which subsequently became The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
A Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Engine with its driver and fireman. The location is not known.
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