It's Sunday 27th June 1971 and Grantham Yard signal box is about to close. Leaving the box for the last time, someone reached into a drawer or cupboard for an old scrapbook which had been lying there for years. It contained circulars and memos received by the signalmen at the Yard Box between 1900 and 1945, each carefully pasted into a page for possible future reference. They would be needed no more but maybe someone, someday, might be interested...
At Tracks through Grantham we have recently seen this remarkable survivor. It truly is a fascinating archive, with many stories to tell about things that mattered to the railway and to its employees.
A new page on our website draws on this resource for the first time. Fresh Fish Daily! is an insight into the importance of the Scotch fish traffic to the people who operated the Great Northern section of the East Coast Main Line in the early decades of the 20th century.