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Published on Leave a comment on Oh for a Time Machine!

After a few technical issues we have now been able to republish a new page on the Tracks through Grantham website. After Derek Meads had sent in a comment about one of our previous articles we invited him to tell us about his own memories of visiting Grantham. We are sure that you will enjoy reading Derek's nostalgic recollections in - Oh for a Time Machine!  There's a link to the page here

Published on Leave a comment on Oh for a Time Machine!

A new page has been added to the Tracks through Grantham website. After Derek Meads had sent in a comment about one of our articles we invited him to tell us about his own memories of visiting Grantham. We are sure that you will enjoy reading Derek's nostalgic recollections in - Oh for a Time Machine!  There's a link to the page here

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As a means of monitoring and potentially improving the way in which content is displayed on the Tracks through Grantham website, we would like to invite you to take part in a very short survey.  To leave your response please go to the Contact Us or Subscribe page via the link and complete a Contact Form.  Submissions will not be published.

Note: Your feedback on Question 1 is our primary need, so please respond to that even if you have nothing to say on Questions 2, 3 or 4.

  1. When you are reading through our articles, do you sometimes have problems with the photographs displaying properly? If so please provide a brief description of your experience with this problem and the type of device you are using when visiting the website. If all is fine with the photographs displaying, then still let us know about that too.   
  2. What aspects of the Grantham railway scene do you enjoy reading about? Again, just a short reply will help, but would you like to contribute towards future content yourself?
  3. When visiting the website, are you looking for any specific content, or do you just casually read through everything? We would love to know, but you can also tell us about your own Grantham railway related interests.
  4. Finally, we would like to think that the Tracks through Grantham website brings enjoyment to all those who visit us, but can you think of any potential improvements? Please provide us with your thoughts.                                                                                                                                                                                              Thanks in advance for your help with our survey. Mel Smith & John Clayson.

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Published on 4 Comments on “Season’s Greetings”

A big thank you to all of our friends & contributors for your support and encouragement during 2023. Please do keep a lookout for new content during 2024. Your continued feedback and ideas are always most welcome.                             

Published on Leave a comment on Patrick Kew – A Peterborough Fireman

We've just added a new page on the website. The location is slightly out of our usual Tracks through Grantham area, but we are sure that you will enjoy reading the entertaining story of 'Patrick Kew - A Peterborough Fireman'.  There's a link to the page here .

Published on Leave a comment on The Diesel Era.

Can you help? After publication of the initial 'Diesel Era' introductory pages some years ago, this part of the TTG website has been somewhat neglected. Steve Philpott, one of our regular contributors, has a great interest and first hand knowledge and expertise in that area. Steve has kindly offered to help out by writing new content for this section of the website.

This is an ideal and most welcome opportunity for us to carry on with our continuing research and development of this part of the Tracks through Grantham project. With that in mind and with your anticipated help, the plan is to gather more information relating to diesel locomotive workings, sightings, documentation, anecdotal memories or anything else that could potentially be useful. Our ultimate aim is to present a day-to-day picture of typical operations and events, as diesels gradually replaced steam in and around Grantham.

This new development will see Steve link up with the existing Diesel Era The Diesel Era at Grantham  & DMU Railcars (Diesel Multiple Units) in Grantham and Lincolnshire. pages; already published on the website. We will then go on to record, in much more detail, the role that the BR diesel locomotive fleet played during the modernisation of railway services through Grantham. The period to be covered will be from the early 'prototype' years i.e. the late 1950s and eventually lead right up to the electrification of the East Coast Main Line in the late 1980s.

Photographs, Memories and Notes: With the exception of maybe the prototype 'DELTIC' there was a natural focus on recording the ever diminishing numbers of steam locos passing through our region. Few photographs it seems were taken of the ordinary workaday diesels in the Grantham area. Should you therefore have any photographs or slides from this period, or you know of someone else who would be willing to loan them to TTG for scanning and possible use on the website, then we would love to hear from you. As always, full credit will be provided to you or the original photographer. By the way, don't worry too much about quality, for as they say, every picture tells a story!  Also of great interest are any notes of diesel sightings and associated details such as train reporting numbers, liveries, times and consists etc. As a starting point for Steve, he has a quite extensive and comprehensively recorded set of notes of his own sightings at Grantham, some dating back to 1968. Maybe you have a few notes from this period hidden away yourself? If so please do get in touch.

Did you work on the railway in the Grantham area during this period? We are also seeking first hand stories from people whose working life was centred in and around Grantham between 1955 to 1990. Maybe you, or someone you knew, worked on the station or had a job associated with the railway? As a passenger, do you have memories of travelling to and from Grantham during this time? Again, please get in touch. Any small bit of information or anecdote is of great interest and will really help us to create a lasting record of the 'Diesel Era'

 

Published on Leave a comment on The Day we bought a Loco for Threepence.

We've just added a new page on the website. In Mike Ward's entertaining story you will read about 'How a loco was bought for threepence'! Here's the link to the page The Day we bought a Loco for Threepence