– toward Doncaster) 75mph (Up – toward Peterborough) Spalding: 50mph Spalding (excl) to Sleaford South Junction: 75mph Sleaford avoiding lines: 55mph Sleaford to Lincoln: 75mph Incidents One person died and 30 people were injured in the Nocton rail accident when a train hit a vehicle on the tracks at the site of a removed bridge, on 28 February 2002. On 6 December 2004 two people died in a collision between a car and a class 153 DMU on a user operated crossing south east of Helpringham. References Rail transport in Lincolnshire Transport in Peterborough Railway lines in the East of England Standard gauge railways in England