Only the section from Lincoln to Woodhall Junction which provided links to Horncastle and Firsby remained open until between 1970–1971 to both passengers and freight traffic.

Today, the section from Lincoln to Woodhall Junction forms part of the Water Rail Way footpath and between Boston and Spalding.

[5] In September 2018 a new grade separated junction at Werrington was under construction to allow freight and passenger services to dive under the East Coast Main Line.

On 28 February 2002, one person died and thirty people were injured in the Nocton rail accident when a train hit a vehicle on the tracks at the site of a removed bridge.

[9] 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.