BRIGG PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE TO BE WITHDRAWN FOR SIX WEEKS

Brigg Blog is sorry to impart some negative news for local public transport users.
All the passenger trains calling at our railway station and Kirton Lindsey's will be CANCELLED for six weeks, beginning in the New Year.
Northern, which provides the Saturdays-only Sheffield to Cleethorpes service via Barnetby is withdrawing trains along the Brigg line in a Covid emergency "amended" timetable operating from January 4 to February 19, 2022.
Northern will NOT be operating a substitute bus service during this period.
Often in the past, when trains have failed to run for various reasons, a luxury coach has been arranged to call at all stations on the route.
Although appreciating the staffing difficulties currently being faced, isn't there a case for our local line to be given priority when it comes to allocating available resources due to the fact it only has a service one day a week (and just six journeys in total)?
Many other lines in the north which get trains far more often than Brigg does will still have trains running in the New Year when the amended timetable is introduced.
It's only a few weeks since a new timetable became effective for passenger trains on the Brigg Line. This was intended to cover the period through to May 2022.

PICTURED: The first Saturday train of the morning (and the week) picking up passengers in Brigg some months ago, and a substitute bus at our railway station at a later date when the trains did not run.