LONG LIVE OUR STATION!

It is often difficult as a local community journalist to decide whether or not rumours should be reported. So when we heard second-hand rumours last year suggesting there might be plans to close Brigg railway station we asked a few well-placed friends to check it out, and decided Brigg Blog would hold fire until they came back to us with something more concrete to work on. Nothing was heard so the story was put on a back-burner, so to speak.
However, the latest issue of the newsletter InTouch with Brigg and Wolds Conservatives - delivered to homes in the town - reports the rumours and gives assurances from Network Rail that there's nothing in them.
So the station, which has served the town for more than 160 years, lives on - even though it was thankfully never under threat. At least not for now.
Come on, Nige, asides like that are how rumours start in the first place!

PS No criticism intended here of those behind the Conservatives' newsletter who have a right to make their own minds up on what they print. And it's reassuring to know all's well on the railway front.