From The Friends of the Barton Line
(Their report very kindly being shunted on to Brigg Blog by our own station supporter Jim Allcroft)
Some members of the Friends of the Barton Line caught a Saturday train from Brigg and had a most enjoyable day in Sheffield.
On arriving at Sheffield the party retired to The Tap, which is on Platform 1B, for a drink and a bite to eat. The Tap was the First Class Refreshment Room which, after many years of neglect and closure, has been lovingly brought back into use and much of the original fabric and many fittings have been retained whilst items which were deemed to be beyond repair have been carefully replaced or replicated in keeping with the original décor and is a Grade 2 listed building by English Heritage.
The Tap has more than twenty cask-conditioned real ales and it lists 214 bottled beers being available and can offer a selection of snack foods.
Although the weather was damp, two members took the opportunity to visit the Winter Gardens which was built as part of the Sheffield Regeneration Project and is a large temperate greenhouse with over 2000 varieties of tropical plants.
Why not take the opportunity to use the train and visit Sheffield, whether it be to visit other attractions or just a shopping trip to the city centre which is close by?
Or catch a tram just outside the station for Meadowhall.
Or take a trip (in the other direction) to Grimsby or Cleethorpes.
Trains run only on a Saturday to the following timetable:
To Sheffield
Cleethorpes 11.33 15.21 19.13
Grimsby Town 11.21 15.28 19.20
Habrough 11.31 15.38 19.30
Barnetby 11.40 15.48 19.39
Brigg 11.46 15.53 19.45
Kirton Lindsey 11.55 16.02 19.54
Sheffield 13.23 17.23 21.22
To Grimsby/Cleethorpes
Sheffield 08.03 12.00 16.00
Kirton Lindsey 09.10 13.13 17.14
Brigg 09.19 13.22 17.23
Barnetby 09.38 13.37 17.37
Habrough 09.48 13.47 17.47
Grimsby Town 10.00 14.00 18.01
Cleethorpes 10.13 14.11 18.11
Our picture shows a Saturday train at Brigg station - heading for Grimsby and Cleethorpes.
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