Travellers passing through Grantham station could be forgiven for thinking they’d passed through a time warp.

LNER colleagues donned special costumes, taking themselves back to 1923, the year the London North Eastern Railway company – along with the Great Western, London Midland and Scottish and Southern Railway Companies – came into being.

Centenary celebrations have been taking place all year right across the LNER route, which runs from London King’s Cross to Inverness, serving cities including Leeds, Bradford, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

At Grantham, accompanying the LNER employees who had dressed up, was a 1920s jazz band as well as a display of archive posters and photographs. Customers received a souvenir newspaper, a special ticket, and LNER 100 badges to celebrate the event.

David Horne, Managing Director at LNER, said: “ We are delighted to be celebrating 100 years of LNER at Grantham railway station. Grantham is, of course, station that is famous for many things in LNER’s history. This where Mallard started its record breaking run back in 1938, so what better place to have a bit of fun and remember 100 years of Grantham’s railway history as well as the centenary of LNER .”