In its February and March 2025 issues the magazine British Railways Illustrated (BRILL) featured an article titled Interlude at Grantham by Roderick Fowkes. In each issue there are six pages of black and white photographs taken at or near Grantham in the mid-1950s by the late M.E. Kirk. Many of the pictures show the same stationary passenger train before and after a locomotive change has taken place. However, some have added interest. For example, an O4 seen on an ironstone train from High Dyke where each of the first four wagons visible is of a different design, all bottom-discharge and including one with a wooden body; by the 1960s this traffic was being handled with a fleet of standard steel wagons of 'tippler' type.
Two of the pictures feature C12 4-4-2Ts on station pilot duty.
Two of the photographs were taken some miles north of Grantham, but the caption writer hasn't identified the locations; they are a B1-hauled fish train approaching Clensey Lane bridge from the north (p262) and the Royal Train with A3 No. 60044 Melton passing Hougham northbound (p265).
John Clayson