RAISING A GLASS OR TWO IN SUPPORT OF THE BRIGG LINE TRAIN SERVICE

Brigg Line passenger train use should be boosted by a forthcoming event.
Local folk can leave the car at home and take a train from our railway station to visit the annual Gainsborough Beer Festival on Saturday, October 12, which offers FREE entry and opens at noon.
It's being held in the town's historic Old Hall - well worth a visit itself - on Parnell Street, DN21 2NB. The venue is only 10 minutes' walk from Gainsborough Central station.
Board the train in Brigg at 11.48am to arrive in Gainsborough at 12.10pm.
The return train leaves Gainsborough Central at 4.58pm.
An adult return fare is £9.60.
That gives visitors from Brigg and Kirton Lindsey, whose station is also served by trains on the iconic line, ample time to sample some of the 56 beers on offer at the festival, together with 15 ciders/perries, white wines and red.
Informative lealets about the 2019 Gainsborough Beer Festival can be found at Brigg's Yarborough Hunt pub, on Bridge Street. That's how we found out about this spectator event.
The leaflet includes a useful map showing the way from the station to the Old Hall.
Brigg Blog, and others, continue to do what we can to promote the Saturdays-only passenger train service between Sheffield, Retford, Gainsborough, Kirton, Brigg and Cleethorpes (via Barnetby) along the now little used former Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway mainline.
Our station's Victorian era booking office having been closed and demolished many years ago, tender your fare to the conductor/guard once you've boarded the train in Brigg.
Trains bound for Gainsborough and Sheffield leave from Platform 2 - meaning that you'll need to cross the footbridge to await the arrival of the diesel unit which makes three journeys each Saturday along the entire length of the Brigg Line.
PICTURED: A Saturday train calling at Brigg railway station.