Remember the film Brief Encounters, which had a key scene about meeting up on a railway station?
People are now regularly visiting Brigg station to meet friends getting off Saturday-only trains.
This is revealed in the latest report from the Brigg Line Group, which also reports how football fans boosted passenger numbers on Saturday by using one of the Brigg line trains.
Read the full report through this link...
The Lancashire railway station used for the 1945 film Brief Encounters boasted a fine range of buildings. Sadly, those on the platforms in Brigg were removed long ago. But we do still have a station on the national passenger train network - if only one day a week.
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Carnforth....Nige...it a small town in north Lancashire, just off the M6...
I'm a Lancashire lad, Nige...during my ankle-gripper years, Blackpool, Preston NE, Blackburn Rivers FC's were amongst the top teams...Liverpool was in the 2nd Division...
So when you see me wearing a red rose and chomping at an Eccles cake and supping Lancashire Hotpot, don't worry!
ps there's also the Chorley cake - it's all to do with what type of pastry is used and whether there's a sprinkling of sugar...we Lancashire folk are very perculiar, sorry, particular.
Folks flocked to Brigg in their hundreds and thousands, circa 1885 for about the next 30 years, to see the Bronze Age *Brigg Logboat.
During that period, it was on display in a specially constructed shed on Station Approach.
Elwes claimed the boat and charged visitors sixpence.
The site is now occupied by the Golden Living complex....and the shed remained until the previous occupiers of the site, Ward Roofing, vacated the the plot.
But, like all the sites of historic interest about Brigg, there is no plaque to reflect the town's history....
*Brigg Logboat....this is the boat that went to Hull museum and was destroyed by German bombing in WW2....
A number of research archeologists say that it is very likely that there are other Bronze Age boats yet to be discovered in Brigg.
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