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Month: March 2025

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It's been a while since we published new pages on the Tracks through Grantham website.  This is mainly because we've been fixing a performance issue with the site, which has been quite a challenge.  We've also been carrying out some 'housekeeping' to check that external links, some created several years ago, continue to find their intended destination.

Today we are launching five series of photographs taken by Colin Walker when he travelled with the footplate crew on express locomotives.  Pacifics of classes A3, A4 and A1 appear, along with a Deltic diesel electric.  Locations range from Gas Works Tunnel, leading out of London King's Cross station, to Scrooby Water Troughs, north of Retford, and Doncaster station.

You can find the introduction page here.  From it there are links to the groups of photographs taken on the five trips.

We're sure this latest group of pages has been worth waiting for.  Comments will be very welcome – there is a box at the foot of each page.

Some of you may also receive this update in a direct email from Tracks through Grantham.   This will be because you are both a Subscriber to our website and a direct email Contact for our project.  Please bear with us on this because eliminating overlap between Subscribers and Contacts is much easier said than done. 

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Our next get-together for people interested in Tracks through Grantham will take place in Grantham in mid-April.  These events are an opportunity to meet for a few hours to enjoy a varied and, we hope, informative programme.  Our meetings are usually held twice a year, in spring and autumn.

If you are already on our list of email and postal contacts you should recently have received the meeting programme and invitation.  Please remember to let us know if you hope to be with us.

If you are interested in attending but haven't received a programme/invitation please get in touch, using the Contact Form here, providing your name and email address along with either a phone number or a postal contact address.  We will add you to our list of email contacts and send a programme and invitation which gives the date, time and venue.  It will also request a reply if you intend to join us.

We don't publish the meeting details for all to see on the website because both we and our host venue need to know how many people to expect.

The programme this time will include presentations on named trains which ran through Grantham in the early 1960s, on the stories of two women who were brought together by fate as a result of the Grantham rail disaster of 1906, and on how the pastime of trainspotting attracted hordes of boys to the station in the 1950s and 1960s.

Testing the Tracks through Grantham website

For several months some users of our website have been experiencing poor loading of images.  The main symptom has been blank white rectangles appearing where images should be.  Thanks to some really valuable advice and suggestions we think this problem may largely be sorted.  However, to be more certain we’d appreciate some feedback on our website’s current performance so, if you have a few moments, please open some pages and check whether images appear where they are supposed to.    If you experience problems please get in touch using the Contact Form on this page, briefly describing the symptoms, and tell us the type of device you are using and whether you are in the UK or elsewhere in the world.  At this point there’s no need to be any more specific; we will get back to you if it will be helpful to know more.