The station buildings were designed by John Henry Taylor of London in 1848, for the Great Northern Railway company.

It is built in a Tudor revival style of yellow brick, with stone dressings and slate roofs, with six ridge and eight side wall stacks.

East Midlands Railway also operate five trains per day between Peterborough and Doncaster, as well as a single daily service to London St Pancras International.

As part of the commitment, NXEC planned to introduce a two-hourly service between Lincoln and London King's Cross, starting in 2009.

In late 2009, East Coast, along with Network Rail, published details of the proposed new ECML timetable, including the Lincoln-London services.

[14] On 22 May 2011 East Coast started direct Lincoln-London Kings Cross services, albeit in a much reduced number than they had originally planned.

The service frequency to Sheffield and Retford was increased to twice hourly during the week, and to hourly on Sundays in 2019, whilst the Lincoln to Sheffield service was incorporated into Arriva Rail North's Northern Connect regional network and extended to Leeds via Barnsley.

Nottinghamshire County Council, the Department for Transport and Network Rail are in discussion about various improvements to the line towards Nottingham including a doubling of service.

[17] In April 2019, the new East Midlands Railway franchise was awarded, which included several key improvements for services in Lincoln.

Other improvements as part of the new franchise include hourly services will be introduced between Nottingham and Grimsby Town via Lincoln with limited extensions to Cleethorpes, which would be achieved by extending the existing Leicester to Lincoln service to Grimsby Town.

[18][19] On 9 May 2019, following the end of the standstill period, Abellio confirmed they planned to extend the Leicester service to Grimsby Town.