INTERESTING PICTURES SHOW WHEN ICONIC BRIGG LINE WAS CONNECTED TO MAJOR LOCAL FACTORY

Many Brigg Blog followers will have happy memories of the local sugar factory - just over the border in Scawby.
It was a major employer - part-time and full-time - from the late 1920s through to the early 1990s when British Sugar shut the plant.
Richard Beamer spotted a post we'd done about the factory and kindly enclosed these black and white pictures from the early or mid-1980s on an email.

They show British Railways' tiny Brigg Siding signalbox and the British Sugar diesel shunting loco, built by Ruston, that lattery moved wagons about on the edge of the factory.
Steam power had been used earlier.
These days they move large quantities of imported biomass material through Immingham and Barnetby to feed power station furnaces in Yorkshire.
But railway wagons do not bring biomass to the plant occupying part of the old Brigg Sugar Factory site.
Instead, supplies are brought in by lorries using local roads.
Railway sidings are very costly to install and we presume the old factory sidings were lifted long ago, together with the points that linked them to the Brigg Line.
Or are some of the rails still there - buried beneath the undergrowth?
During the consultation stage for the biomass plant just outside Brigg, a North Lincolnshire resident suggested that straw bales might be brought in by craft along the River Ancholme.
That did not materialise.

A biomass wagon used to take imported material to Yorkshire - seen here passing through Barnetby station.