Mike Gott
“As Chairman of the LCLR Historic Vehicles Trust, it is my very sad duty to announce the death of Mike Gott, on 2nd April 2022, at the age of 63.
“Mike first volunteered at the LCLR (on its pre-Skegness site in North Sea Lane, Humberston, near Cleethorpes) in 1970 and has been associated with the railway ever since.
“He became a founder member of the Trust on its formation in 1983 and has remained so until his untimely death. He was also a shareholder in the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway Company Ltd.
“Mike’s main railway interest was the narrow gauge. He was a long-standing member of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society and when he moved from Lincolnshire to Lancashire for work reasons in 1990, he also became a member of the West Lancashire Light Railway (at Hesketh Bank) where he kept a Ruston diesel locomotive, which he owned.
“Mike’s interests were broader than just railways. He was a fine musician – a morris dancer, a collector of elderly motor cycles and mopeds, a railway modeller and an excellent photographer, with his trusty Leica.
“He was my very good friend for 50 years and will be much missed.”
Mike is survived by his wife, Louise (with whom he shared a former railway cottage in Horwich, near Bolton) and by his brother, John.
Richard Shepherd, Chairman, LCLR HVT
Mike Gott (standing on ground) with fellow LCLR volunteer Mick Allen (driver, on footplate) beside the railway’s 1903-vintage steam locomotive “Jurassic” on which he was fireman, in May 2018. when an open day was held to mark the extension of the railway.
Mike seen here on 3rd September 2011 driving Simplex loco "Nocton" hauling the Nocton passenger vehicle at the 2011 gala.