Tweets from a recent #Lincolnshire Day Ranger rail ticket to cover what remains of the railways there. The railway network in the county was severely depleted by the closures of October 1970 but passenger services to the east coast @ #Skegness & #Cleethorpes remain. 1/15 Starting at #Skegness, the station concourse features a statue of 'Skegness Sam', famous from the 'Skegness is so Bracing' old Great Northern Railway poster. Old style semaphore signals still exist & the line from #Nottingham in now known as 'Poacher Line'. 2/15

Happy New Year to all my Twitter followers. 1st January 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the nationalisation of the British coalmining industry & formation of the National Coal Board #NCB The East Midlands coalfields formed into 8 areas, by 1950 rationalised to 6. 1/4 How the #Nottinghamshire local newspaper, the #Mansfield Chronicle, known locally as the @ChadNews reported nationalisation of the British coalmining on 2nd January 1947. 2/4 #miningheritage