Doncaster–Lincoln line

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Doncaster Bessacarr Halt Finningley Park Drain Axholme Joint Railway to Goole Haxey Junction Haxey and Epworth River Idle Chesterfield Canal Misterton to Stockwith Goods Misterton Petroleum storage depot Walkeringham Beckingham Sheffield–Lincoln line to Sheffield West Trent Junction River Trent East Trent Junction Sheffield–Lincoln line to Cleethorpes Gainsborough Lea Road Lea Stow Park Leverton Branch Saxilby LD&ECR Skellingthorpe Grimsby–Lincoln–Newark line Lincoln Grimsby–Lincoln–Newark line to Cleethorpes Peterborough–Lincoln line

The Doncaster–Lincoln line is a railway line in England. It runs from the East Coast Main Line at Doncaster south east to Lincoln.

Services on the line are provided by East Midlands Railway and Northern,^[1] with a few continuing through Lincoln to the Peterborough–Lincoln line.

The towns and villages served by the route are listed below.

• Doncaster
• Gainsborough
• Saxilby
• Lincoln

The line is part of the former Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway.^[2]

Between Doncaster and Gainsborough the line passes between Finningley and Blaxton. There used to be a station at this point and as this is the site of the new Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, there has been discussion about constructing a new station to serve the airport. Planning permission for a station was granted in 2008,^[3] but no construction work was ever started.

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