TOWN ON TV

Hope you saw the nice piece about Brigg on BBC TV's Look North yesterday, "plugged" in advance by Brigg Blog. It featured on three different news broadcasts during the day, culminating in the main programme with Peter Levy, starting at 6.30pm.
The theme was Brigg's very poor passenger train service (three a week in each direction, just on Saturdays) and the state of the approaches to the station and the platforms itself.
"Stills" of the railway station in all its glory - with covered roof, buildings and staff - were compared to footage of the dilapidated facility today.
Coun Tom Glossop appeared to explain how Brigg Town Council had been pressing for many years to get improvements. Locals Jim Allcroft and his wife, who have adopted the station under a national scheme, were also interviewed.
Perhaps this came as a minor irritation to the railway firms involved in today's de-nationalised network. And the report ended by saying there were no plans to review the number of trains visiting Brigg each week, which, it was suggested, is in line with the Government's wishes. Presumably that was a reference to some sort of subsidy/support received.
The Brigg line is destined to remain a useful one for freight which can't, for whatever reason, use the Barnetby-Scunthorpe-Doncaster route. But if we can't get more trains, surely the station approaches can at least be improved to a decent standard.