AN INSPECTOR CALLS: HOPES THAT BRIGG RAILWAY STATION WILL SEE INVESTMENT AND IMPROVEMENT DURING 2018

FROM THE FRIENDS OF THE BRIGG LINE

Our friends at Pilning station, in South Gloucestershire, who also have a Saturday service and are missing a footbridge as Network Rail took it down due to electrification,  have kindly popped up a Visit Brigg poster in their waiting shelter.
Last Thursday I had a Northern Rail station inspector visit Gainsborough Central. He had just been to Brigg and Kirton in Lindsey.
He said that a Brigg request will go in to repair the metal station fencing on the Sheffield platform that was vandalised and pulled down.
There are plans in the future for 'real time information' and maybe new waiting shelters as part of the franchise requirement.
However, with Brigg Station been classed as "vulnerable" these improvements are on the back burner.
I've also popped in a freedom of information (FOI) request to the British Transport Police for yearly crime figures for all North Lincolnshire stations.
NF ADDS: The crime figures we bring you each month for Brigg only relate to incidents dealt with by Humberside Police, not those assigned to the  nationwide Transport force.  Re. our headline - we doubt whether dramatist J. B. Priestley ever called in Brigg, but you never know!

PICTURED: Pilning station and the Visit Brigg poster.