The Lincoln avoiding line time shift collection

The Lincoln avoiding line, also known as the high line, was built in 1882, so that freight trains could pass through the city without having to close either of the two High Street level crossings. It existed for 102 years, before it and the bridges were closed in 1984, the year before St. Mark's railway station was closed.

The railway embankments, that carried the avoiding line to the various bridges around the city, were largely flattened for housing, as on the north side of Peel Street in the second video. But you can still see a short stretch of it to the east of Tritton Road, between Dixon Street and Coulson Road.

The first four videos show the railway bridge over High Street near Gowts Bridge. The next three are on Sincil Bank near the football ground. Then the next two are on Cross Street, again near the football ground, and the final one is on St. Andrew's Street.

This isn't an exhaustive collection of old photos of the line and it's bridges, but it is all the time shifts I've made that feature it.

There are of course many people who say it should never have been removed and that it would have solved Lincoln's traffic issues today, but people who know more about these things than me say that it isn't that simple. Nonetheless the myth continues as many do :(