With the sun dropping low in the sky now most

of Lincoln's High Street signal box is in shadow as its level crossing but the station is still in the light. To the left at platform five is 31180 waiting at the head of a parcels working, local knowledge would probably be able to inform as to what this working may have been...anybody? To the right waiting at platform six is 31228 that will soon leave with the 1J20 17.20 Skegness to Sheffield service. The High Street signal box looks empty and closed but that could not be further from the truth. It was a very busy box where one of the signalman's main challenges was to keep the users of the very busy High Street as happy as possible by keeping the gates closed to them for as little time as he could but still permitting the passage of the trains in and out of the station. Road users had the tricky situation to deal with of not only this level crossing but another one some few hundred yards further south from here where the line through St. Marks station also crossed the road. The rather grand tower above the station building stands proud in the evening sunshine as does Canwick Hall high on the hill to the extreme right of the photograph.