DEEP DEPRESSION SETS THE MOOD FOR BRIGG VIGIL

Some hardy souls met up at Brigg railway station on Tuesday afternoon to undertake a vigil in memory of the town's passenger train service being reduced to just one day a week back on October 1, 1993.
With a deep depression bringing heavy rain and a stiff breeze, they took to the metal shelter provided on platform one. But it afforded them precious little cover from the elements as there is currently no glass in the side windows!
The first October 1 vigil was held last year, on the 25th anniversary of the timetable being slashed, and another will follow in 2020. Unless, of course, someone in authority can pull the right stings and restore a much more meaningful passenger train service for Brigg and nearby Kirton Lindsey, Monday to Friday.
The fact that Gainsborough - also on the Brigg Line - has now managed to achieve this suggests there's hope.
Campaigners will continue to press for Brigg and Kirton to get a better deal.
Our picture, taken from Brigg station's lofty footbridge yesterday, tells its own story. We trust that the relevant rail company will get round to replacing the shelter's (vandalised?) glass panels in the not too distant future.
With winter ahead, customers using Brigg station on Saturdays to catch trains to Barnetby, Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Gainsborough, Retford and Sheffield deserve to be protected from bad weather.
Sadly, Brigg station's extensive buildings, including enclosed brick-built waiting rooms, were demolished long ago with bus shelter-style replacements installed.
And talking of buses, on Saturdays the Brigg Line still sees some of the surviving 'Pacer' units, built in the 1980s as a venture between British Rail and Leyland Motors, with bus bodies on top of a railway underframe.