BRIGG REQUEST DERAILED

A suggestion that Brigg Town Council might like to chip into the cost of maintaining a footway to the railway station has hit the buffer stops.
North Lincolnshire Council, which owns land on the approaches to the facility on Station Road, inquired whether the Town Council would agree to provide a financial contribution towards future maintenance, if a suitable walkway was provided.
Town councillors have been campaigning for years to get a better surface laid to the station, but some seemed surprised, and even a shade shocked, at being asked to cough up for a share of the upkeep.
It was suggested the Town Council might like to indicate an amount it would be prepared to earmark, to which Coun Penny Smith responded: “I suggest an upper limit of nought £s and nought pence!”
Brigg railway station has served the town since the 1840s and was once on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’s mainline, boasting a fine range of station buildings, adjoining goods yard, sidings – and a staff to match.
However, more than 40 years ago it was reduced to the level of an unstaffed halt, the buildings being progressively demolished, siding removed and the number of trains calling there severely curtailed.
Since the mid-1990s, Brigg has only received Saturday passenger trains – three to Cleethorpes and three to Sheffield, which are poorly supported and generally involve just one motorised coach.
The access from the end of Station Road is very poor indeed, crossing the rough area used on Thursdays by Stennett’s produce market.
Railway managers recently invested some money in improvements to the station, but no extra trains have been provided.



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