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Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 5:46 pm
by 52D
A4 at High Dyke Junction perhaps?
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:37 am
by strang steel
It looks a bit too flat for High Dyke, although 63936 was a long term Grantham loco.
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:34 pm
by madgewildfire60135
Thank you to you both for your reply to the above image. Some more investigation then but I didn't think it was Grantham.
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:10 pm
by madgewildfire60135
I think the image of 60010 was taken at Doncaster probably when it was in for attention 5th March 1962. I came across this image and the location looks identical even looking at the telegraph pole and wires.
http://www.rail-online.co.uk/p603239225 ... #h486f2914
Thanks,Simon
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:42 pm
by 61070
I've just picked up a copy of the February issue of Steam Days magazine where there's an evocative article by David Martin titled A Day Trip to Grantham: 1961. The author describes a typical day's outing by bus and train from his home in Nottingham to Grantham station, accompanied by some great photographs, and he very kindly gives this thread a mention. So thanks for that David, and a warm welcome to any new readers. If you've got this far I hope you enjoyed the journey.
Here are a couple of photos of spotters at Grantham which I don't think I've posted here yet. If you recognise anyone in them please get in touch.
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:48 am
by strang steel
Oh yes, drainpipe jeans. I remember those and the ten minutes they took to get over my ankles before going to bed.
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:13 am
by Iron Duke
A new collection of photographs portraying a typical day trip to Grantham can be found here
http://www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/rec ... -grantham/
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:48 pm
by Iron Duke
A few cine film clips in colour taken at Grantham and including 46245 "City of London" can be found here
http://www.tracksthroughgrantham.uk/rec ... way-films/
Re: Returning to Grantham
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:20 am
by DerekM
61070 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:50 pm
Thanks very much for the discussion on 90510's overpainted number. I hadn't thought of a 'cab swap', presuming that the '75' was the last part of a WD or an LNER number.
Mallard's comment about his first WD sighting and reference to GW locos has reminded me of my earliest 'disaster' as a young spotter, probably also around 1959 or '60. It was the sight of my first ever GW loco - a Hall - on the GC just north of Leicester station crossing the bridge over the river. It was so filthy that, from where I was standing below, and against the light, I could read neither its number nor its name. How I cursed the GW for its cast numberplates. I was inconsolable for days!
I'll put up some more photos from Grantham in the next day or two.
90510 = W.D Number 79236 N.E Numer 3189 DerekM