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The Independent Brigg Line Rail Group. We Promote Coming To Brigg By Train Using The Unique 1 Round Trip Weekday Train Service. Bygone Pictures. Views Our Own We're not associated with NNLCRP

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Northorpe station and signal box on the 8th of August 1956.

Situated between Gainsborough and Kirton in Lindsay, the station had close the previous year.

The signal box still survives today along with the station building.

© H.B Priestley.

19.02.2026 04:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, and Saturdays, but there is a transportation problem with the latter.

18.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MORE CUSTOMERS for the 1 round trip Monday to Friday service ✅

150273 Northern Railway-2H01 -0954 -Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes, kindly filmed at Brigg this morning at 1104am by 🎥 Kev Genney.

Tomorrow is Brigg Market Day
tinyurl.com/briggtrainguide

18.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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On this day.

A class 25 on a CCE working. 25048 beats its little heart out as it pounds "up the bank" out of Brigg to position a load in the CCE sidings at Barnetby ready for weekend engineering work, pictured on the 18th February 1983.

© Phillip Hewson.

18.02.2026 07:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good to see more passengers using the 1 round trip Monday to Friday service out of season.

150211 -2H00 -1320 -Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland, kindly filmed at Brigg this afternoon 🎥 by Kev Genney.

17.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More customers ✅

3 passengers on, 4 passengers off at Brigg, on the unique 1 round trip Monday to Friday service.

150277 Northern -2H00 - 0954 -Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes, kindly filmed at Brigg railway station this morning by 🎥 Kev Genney.

16.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On this day

Snowplough duty for 31214 and 31302 at Brigg on 16th February 1979.

The greatest problem on this day wasn't the snow but the massive icicles inside the tunnel at Kirton in Lindsey.

© Philip Hewson.

16.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Taken from a DMU cab, shows the scene at Brigg Level Crossing in the summer of 1983.

This was the last full year of life for the semaphore signals as they were replaced with colour lights as part of the major track rationalisation which took place in 1984.

© Phillip Hewson

15.02.2026 06:15 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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#ValentinesDay2026

Roses are red, violets are blue, the Brigg Line communities need a better rail service, over to Train Operators and the Government to deliver it too.

tinyurl.com/briggtrainguide

14.02.2026 06:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1 WEEK NOTICE

Help us boost footfall out of season on the Brigg Line passenger service.

Members of the IBLRG will be travelling on the unique 1 round trip Northern service on Friday 20th February, before having lunch in one of the many fish and chip restaurants in Cleethorpes that are open.

13.02.2026 05:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Rather odd situation. 😄

13.02.2026 05:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Market Day in Brigg.
2 passengers on, 5 passenger off, the "unacceptable" 1 round trip Monday to Friday service as locals call it.

Sheffield Bound 150215 -2H00 -1320 Northern Railway-Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland, kindly filmed at Brigg this afternoon by 🎥 Kev Genney.

12.02.2026 17:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sammy the Swan has been rescued by the RSPCA tonight at the side of Brigg signal box and level crossing.

Sadly Sammy cannot read a train timetable, and was far too early for the 1104 Northern Railway service to Cleethorpes tomorrow morning.

11.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Passengers on a non market day 🙂

Northern Railway 150272 -2H01 -0954 -Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes, kindly at Brigg this morning by ⛴️ Kev Genney.

Tomorrow is Brigg Market Day ⬇️
tinyurl.com/briggtrainguide

11.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The 31st May 1982 was a Whit Monday.

A day when BR wants to maximise on takings with day trippers going to the seaside.

Here we see the morning working from Sheffield Midland, a strengthened unit, pictured about to leave Brigg on its way to Cleethorpes.

© Phillip Hewson

11.02.2026 05:31 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Impressed with the new trains, even if the timetable was all over the place and massive gaps today.

An average 12 minute frequency seems to be an aim.

10.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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@davenextthesea.bsky.social you're highly subsidised ferry doesn't seem to be working today.

10.02.2026 18:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Week 5: Buses
Departures from Brigg:
#BriggLine
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10.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Week 4:
Departures from Brigg:
#BriggLine
@iblrg.bsky.social

10.02.2026 09:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Week 3:
Departures from Brigg:
#BriggLine
@iblrg.bsky.social

10.02.2026 09:12 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Week 2:
Departures from Brigg:
#BriggLine
@iblrg.bsky.social

10.02.2026 09:08 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ITS BACK 🎺

After a week of no services due to major engineering works in Sheffield.

Here is Northern Railway 150269, on the unique 1 round trip - 2H00 -0954 - Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes, kindly filmed at at Brigg this morning by 🎥 Kev Genney

tinyurl.com/briggtrainguide

09.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent, please tag us in any pictures.

We're also on X at @IBLRG

09.02.2026 11:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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ITS BACK ✅

After a week of engineering works in Sheffield, Brigg line rail services return tomorrow.

Help boost footfall, by taking a trip on one of the UK's most unique passenger services provided by Northern Railway and visit Brigg.

tinyurl.com/briggtrainguide

08.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A reminder, the 72 mile long, 1 round trip Northern Monday to Friday Brigg Line service will be previewed on the Tim Iredale Politics North show this Sunday from 10am.

Freeview: 1 (Yorks & Lincolnshire)
Sky: 955 
Freesat: 967.
Virgin Media: 858.
Freely: 756.

05.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Brigg deserves better than one train a day, passengers say A rail group says more frequent services on the North Lincolnshire line will bring in more visitors.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

06.02.2026 10:04 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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A reminder, the 72 mile long, 1 round trip Northern Monday to Friday Brigg Line service will be previewed on the Tim Iredale Politics North show this Sunday from 10am.

Freeview: 1 (Yorks & Lincolnshire)
Sky: 955 
Freesat: 967.
Virgin Media: 858.
Freely: 756.

05.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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August Bank Holiday Excursion to Brigg, Grimsby Docks & Cleethorpes in 1934 with LNER.

05.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Brigg station and coal drops 28th March 1976.

The transfesa wagons on view in the distance had come all the way from Spain, loaded with oranges the raw material for the Springs jam factory based in Brigg.

© Geof Simms

04.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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After working a service from Sheffield via the Brigg Line, a Class 110 is seen at Cleethorpes station in late 1987.

In the bottom left of the picture, is a pair of wooden steps which were used at the station to access trains from the lower level platforms.

© Murray Liston

02.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

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