THE Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway is mourning the death of its company chairman Frederick (Fred)William John Ellis.
Fred was also president of the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway Historic Vehicles Trust, whose chairman, Richard Shepherd, summed up his extraordinary contribution to saving, rebuilding and reopening the LCLR at a new home in Skegness Water Leisure Park, as “quite simply, Fred was the best friend the LCLR ever had.”
Born in 1948, Fred attended Skegness Morris School and became a trainee draughtsman with the Anglian
