Above: Station Inspector Phil Craft consults the timetable of Eastern Region Passenger Services (17th June to 8th September 1963) to advise a passenger on Thursday 15th August 1963.  Photograph taken by Cedric Clayson.

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• Welcome
  • About Tracks through Grantham
    • A personal view of Grantham Station in the 1960s
    • A first visit to Grantham Station in 1959
  • Sitemap and Navigation
  • Copyright
• News
• Railway Life at Grantham
  • Footplate and ‘The Loco’
    • John Aldous
    • William R. ‘Billy’ Bell
    • Boris ‘Bloge’ Bennett
    • Fred Harris – a Long Apprenticeship
    • Patrick Kew – A Peterborough Fireman
    • Alan Mitchell – a Doncaster Fireman
    • Driver Charles Parker
    • Sam Pearce
    • Roy Veasey – My Railway Life
    • Roy Vinter
      • 1957 to 1958: Cleaning at Grantham
      • December 1958 to December 1960: at King’s Cross shed
      • December 1960 to December 1963: back at Grantham
      • The Ironstone Trains
      • Some Grantham Locomotives and Their Work, 1957 to 1963
      • In and around the Loco
    • Paul Watson
    • Sam (Herbert Stanley) Whitaker
    • Peter Wilkinson
    • Footplatemen’s Photographs
    • Some Men Who Saw It All: six Grantham drivers of the 1920s
    • ‘All in a Day’s Work’ – on the footplate from Grantham to Newcastle and back in 1950
    • Engine Cleaners Urgently Required
    • Grantham Loco Mutual Improvement Class Day Trip, 1959
    • A Grantham Crew’s Miraculous Escape
    • Grantham Train Crew Depot
    • HALT FOR ONE MOMENT – a reminder of Grantham Loco Yard
    • Whistles, Whistles and more Whistles
  • Signalling and Signal Boxes
    • Signalling at Grantham – an outline history
    • Signalling at Grantham – staff, shifts and training
    • My Early Recollections of Working on the Railway
    • Stoke Signal Box
    • Highdyke Signal Box – people and incidents
    • Great Ponton Signal Box
    • Saltersford Signal Box
    • Grantham South Signal Box
      • Grantham South signal box – an introduction
      • Grantham South signal box – people and incidents
    • Grantham Yard Signal Box
      • Grantham Yard signal box – an introduction
      • An outline history of Grantham Yard signal box
      • Grantham Yard signal box – people and incidents
    • Grantham North Signal Box
      • Grantham North signal box – an introduction
      • An outline history of Grantham North signal box
      • Grantham North signal box – people and incidents
      • A visit to Grantham North signal box in August 1963
      • Grantham North signal box – more photographs
    • Barrowby Road Signal Box
    • Gonerby Siding Signal Box
    • Signalling at Grantham from Doncaster Power Signal Box
  • Working on the Station
    • Grantham Stationmasters
    • Grantham Clerical Staff, 1938
    • The new Booking Office, 1963
    • Station Supervisors
    • A Typical Summer Saturday Scene!
    • Mailbag Memories
  • Grantham News in the LNER and BR (Eastern Region) Magazines
  • Trade Unions, Social Life and Sport
    • The NUR (National Union of Railwaymen) Grantham Branch
      • The NUR/RMT Grantham Branch from 1974 to 2004
    • Grantham Entertains Britain’s Railway Queen in 1937, 1945 and 1952
    • Grantham’s Railway Queens from 1954
    • The Grantham Railway Guild
    • Grantham Railway Club
    • The Staff Trip to Concorde
• Buildings and Landscape
  • Grantham From Above
    • Aerofilms Views of April 1950
  • Grantham Station Buildings
    • Grantham Station Buildings – a brief history
    • Grantham Station: the Train Starting Indicator on Platform 2, 1940s-1963
    • Grantham Station: A Photographic Survey during the late 1970s.
      • The Buildings on Station Road, east side – late 1970s.
      • The Buildings on Station Road, west side – late 1970s.
      • The Up side buildings, facing platform 1 – late 1970s.
      • The Down side buildings, facing platform 2 – late 1970s.
      • The Down side buildings, facing platform 4 – late 1970s.
      • Some views from the footbridge and rooftops – late 1970s.
    • Grantham Station: The Rebuilding Period in the mid 1980s.
    • Grantham Station: Extending Platform 4, about 1990
    • Grantham Station: A photographic Survey in 2014-15
      • The Buildings on Station Road in 2014-15
      • The Up side buildings, facing platform 1 in 2014-15
      • The Down side building, facing platform 2 in 2014-15
      • Some views from the footbridge and roof tops in 2014-15
    • Grantham Station buildings – external links.
  • Turntables and Triangles
• Grantham Railway History
  • Grantham’s Place in Rail History
    • A Grantham Railway Timeline
  • Grantham – The Rise and Decline of a Railway Centre
  • The Diesel Era at Grantham
    • The Diesel Era at Grantham: an introduction
    • Railcars (Diesel Multiple Units) in Grantham and Lincolnshire.
    • The Deltics
      • The ‘Race to Newark’
    • The HSTs (High Speed Trains)
      • High Speed Trains: The Final Day
  • Events on the Railway at Grantham
    • From Pageantry to Tragedy: the Royal Train calls at Grantham in 1855
    • A ‘City Break excursion’ to London – in 1856
    • The GNR Centenary Celebrations, 1952
    • No. 4472 ‘Flying Scotsman’ at Grantham on 9th June 1968
    • Grantham ‘Station of the Year’ in 1998
    • I was NOT ‘The Stig’!
    • A recollection of the ‘Mallard weekend’ in September 2013
    • STREAK!
    • ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ calls at Grantham
  • Incidents on the Railway at Grantham
    • Accidents: A Grantham Railway Memorial
    • The Grantham High Speed Accident of September 1906: the passenger casualties
      • Georgiana Florence Baguley of Doncaster
      • Albert Kimpton of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire
      • Roland Philipson of Tynemouth, Northumberland
      • Sergeant John Robertson and his children Ivy, Peggy and Teddy of Hamilton, Lanarkshire
    • The Grantham High Speed Accident of September 1906: the emergency response
      • The Emergency Response: the Grantham Hospital and Medical Team
    • The Great War (1914-18): Grantham GNR Men’s Roll of Honour
    • A ‘near miss’ at Barkston in June 1938
    • The Railway at Grantham in Wartime, 1939-1945
    • “I moved quicker than Bannister!”
    • The 60039 Incident, February & March 2013
  • Traffic and Trains
    • 24 Hours at Grantham Station in 1961: introduction
      • 24 Hours at Grantham Station in 1961: part 1, midnight to noon
      • 24 Hours at Grantham Station in 1961: part 2, noon to midnight
    • At the Dawn of a New Era: ‘The Elizabethan’ in and around Grantham
    • Parcels, Mail and Newspaper Trains: Summer 1961
    • Express Freight – early 1960s
    • Fresh Fish Daily!
    • Trial Coach Trains
    • New Diesel Locomotive Acceptance Trials – Doncaster to Grantham
    • Private Industrial Sidings in the Grantham Area
      • Aveling-Barford Ltd.
  • Passengers’ Memories and Anecdotes
    • “Three-D” Tickets
• Observing and Recording the Railway
  • Grantham Railway Galleries
    • Photographs from the 1960s at ‘The Loco’, by Hylton Holt
    • Photographs from 1949 to the 1960s by Humphrey Platts
    • ‘The Plant Centenarian’ calls at Grantham, Sunday 27th September 1953
    • A Day Trip To Grantham
    • Rob Taylor’s Grantham Railway Films
    • A Spotter’s Memories of Grantham and the ECML
    • Timothy Kidd’s Railway Films
    • Sixty years and counting: Grantham station photographs on their diamond anniversary
      • Thursday 31st August 1961
      • Thursday 12th July 1962
      • Thursday 16th August 1962
    • A Trip to Highdyke in Winter’s Chill
    • Flying Scotsman’s stopover at Grantham, October 1973
    • Highdyke to Westborough in Fifty Pictures: photographs by Tom Boustead
  • Spotters’ Corner
    • Happy Days of cop-lobbing on the LNER
    • Derek Meads – Oh for a Time Machine!
    • A Visit to Grantham Station – 13th June 1959
    • The Day we bought a Loco for Threepence
    • Grantham!
    • Train Spotting Bicycle Trips away from Grantham
    • Richard Cumming recalls his spotting days in the 1950s
    • Richard Cumming explores some Byways by Bike
    • Memories of an enjoyable afternoon at Grantham in 1959
    • Haymarket Rarities – captured with a plastic camera
    • A Summer Evening Visit to Grantham in 1960
    • Trainspotting at Barkston Junction and Grantham
    • A Runabout Adventure: October 1961
    • How we discovered Springfield Road Bridge
    • Phil Wilson’s Trainspotting Days at Grantham
      • Spotting Notes September 1963 to January 1964
      • Spotting Notes February to June 1964
      • Spotting Notes July to October 1964
    • Trips to Grantham, aged 9
    • Grantham boys cycled to Scotland on a train spotting holiday
  • Grantham-based Locomotives
    • Merry Hampton’s final fling o’er the Border
    • Grantham Class O2 Locomotives
  • Railways Rediscovered
    • The Woolsthorpe Branch Rediscovered – Part 1
    • The Woolsthorpe Branch Rediscovered – Part 2
    • The Woolsthorpe Branch Rediscovered – Part 3
    • The High Dyke Branch Rediscovered – Part 1
    • The High Dyke Branch Rediscovered – Part 2
  • Rail Tour Rambles round Grantham
  • Railway Modelling
    • Grantham’s Coaling Plant in 2mm (Part 1)
    • Grantham’s Coaling Plant in 2mm (Part 2)
    • Grantham’s Coaling Plant in 2mm (Part 3)
    • Grantham’s Coaling Plant in 2mm (Part 4)
  • More on Grantham Railways
    • Books and Articles
    • Authors, Photographers, a Filmmaker and a Sound Recordist
      • Peter Thomas Handford (1919-2007), sound recordist
      • Colin Peter Walker (1930-2005), art teacher and railway photographer
    • Links to online Photograph Albums
    • Links to Spotters’ Memories
    • Railway Staff on Record
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