HOW NEW BRIGG BRIDGE WILL LOOK

Paul Johnson, from the Friends of the Brigg  Line (FoBLL), has contacted people in the area by email, providing a link to show how the new footbridge at Brigg railway station is going to look.
The structure will have steps, rather than ramps, creating obvious concerns over wheelchair/pushchair access to the far platform, from which passenger trains run on Saturdays to Retford, Gainsborough and Sheffield. 
Paul suggests: "This will be a nail in the coffin for any improvements to passenger numbers at Brigg that both FoBLL and the Gainsborough Rail & Bus Group have worked so hard to improve over the last few years."
He adds: "The customer feedback from Brigg is a solid NO to this design.
"A footbridge with a ramp design will allow customers to use the station and not have to catch a taxi to Barnetby to use the station that has this facility.
"The future of any improvements to passengers numbers at Brigg is down to getting the best for the town and this design does the opposite."
To see how the footbridge will look, follow this link and then go to DRAWING PROPOSED PLANS AND ELEVATIONS
Network Rail says the new single span 'stepped' steel girder bridge, with staircases at each end, is to replace the current structure which  failed its latest structural assessment and therefore needs replacing. Best value to the taxpayer, it suggests, will come from this new footbridge.
Brigg Blog will be very sorry to see the old footbridge demolished. We'd rather like to have seen continuing investment down the decades to ensure the survival of  a Victorian structure which dates back to the golden age of train travel.  Sadly, no-one in authority thought likewise. 
At least there will be some purpose to the demolition - something new will go up in its place.
Whether or not you agee with steps instead of ramps, it's better than what happened to the historic coal "drops" at Brigg station - demolished without ceremony in the 1990s.
Elevated brickwork carried sidings over the coalyard, where wagons discharged their loads to keep the home fires burning in Brigg. 
Two decades after the demolition, supposedly to allow redevelopment to take place, absolutely nothing has happened on the site.