At Tracks through Grantham we've been discussing how we might 'do our bit' to mark the close of the modern Elizabethan era.
It was in 1953 that the world's longest regular non-stop train service was retitled The Elizabethan to mark the coronation of the new monarch, HM Queen Elizabeth II. Since we heard Richard Cumming's presentation Steam on The Elizabethan 1953-1961 at our meeting in October 2021 it's been on our minds to feature The Elizabethan on our website. Now seems an opportune moment to realise this aim.
So we've gathered together photographs of The Elizabethan train service in the Grantham area from our website image library for a new page called At the Dawn of a New Era: ‘The Elizabethan’ in and around Grantham. We think it’s an appropriate gesture and we hope you agree.
You can find the new page here, in our website's Traffic and Trains section.
All the best,
John Clayson and Mel Smith