BRIGG TRAINS TO THE SEASIDE ON BANK HOLIDAY MONDAYS: THEN & NOW

Many older Brigg residents will remember, as children, being taken by mum and/or dad to Brigg railway station to board a train and spend an enjoyable day out in Cleethorpes on August bank holiday Mondays.
We  visited Wonderland, rode on the big dipper and helter-skelter, played the (old)penny slot-machines in the arcades and tucked into fish and chips or, if the family budget was stretched, feasted on packed-up sandwiches dusted with windblown sand.
There's been no bank holiday service along the Brigg line to the east coast resort for many years - with passenger trains reduced to Saturdays only since the mid-1990s.
But rail campaigner Paul Johnson reveals in the latest update to his Brigg Blog that people today are asking why there there are no trains operating on bank holidays.
As there is clear demand, could it be time for train companies to consider a rethink?
It's not as simple as it was in British Rail days. For the firm that operates the trains today is not the one that staffs the signalboxes and owns the track.
Paul also mentions governmental involvement in the process.
Read the latest Brigg line report by Paul through this link...

PICTURED ABOVE: A recent view of Cleethorpes station, with the beach on the right. Diesel units only today;  until 1965/6 this was trainspotters' paradise on summer Saturdays and  bank holiday Mondays with all sorts of steam locos pressed into service to bring excursions to the resort from Yorkshire and the Midlands.