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These newly launched pages take us back to 1960 and 1898.  Though separated in time by more than 60 years, curiously both have a connection with Manchester...

'Tulip Time' - Manchester to the Bulb Fields in May 1960

A handbill promoting a day excursion from stations in the Manchester area to Grantham, where motor coaches were waiting for a tour of the Lincolnshire bulb fields.

From King's Cross to Grantham 'Under the Train' in June 1898

The extraordinary story of a London carriage examiner who unintentionally travelled 105 miles to Grantham while trapped beneath one of the carriages of a Manchester-bound train.

Header image: a train from London King's Cross to Manchester London Road pauses at Grantham in the 1890s.  The Great Northern Railway locomotive will hand over to a Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway engine for travel onward via Retford, Sheffield and Penistone.