On this day.
60085 crosses over the Brigg Station barrow crossing with return empty cement tanks for Hope via Barnetby on 21st April 1992.
The cement distribution depot adjacent to Kirton Lime signal box closed in 1992 this shot represents the end of an era.
© Phillip Hewson
The cathedral of steam that was Nottingham Victoria.
The cathedral of steam that was Nottingham Victoria.
31302 drops off a mineral wagon of coal for the local coal merchant at Brigg in October 1981.
This Worksop to Immingham Reception would continue to run as one of the very last types of a style of train operation which had been around since the very start of railways.
© Phillip Hewson.
Collage of a photo of Sir Edward Watkin from the national Portrait gallery alongside Joseph Brown
#OnThisDay 125 years ago Sir Edward Watkin died. Watkin (L) was chairman of the Great Central, South Eastern and Metropolitan Railways amongst other pursuits; Victorian railway royalty. The chap on the right? My great-grandfather and namesake Joseph Brown... and Watkin's butler.
It's August 1984.
Due to the economics of the time, singling of the Brigg line just beyond the crossing will take place soon.
A Class 114 DMU passes Brigg signal box working a Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland service.
© Phillip Hewson.
Excellent turnout of passengers at Brigg today. ✅
Using the unacceptable 1 round trip Monday to Friday service, today in the hands of unit 150270, 0954 Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes and 1320 Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland.
🎥 The latter working kindly filmed at Brigg by Kev Genney
Congratulations to your parents! Mine will be 70 years in July.
Because the line closed to passengers between Sheffield and Nottingham and South of Rugby in the early hours of 4th September 1966. Indeed it was severed by the M1 motorway on 5th September 1966.
Summer 1980, when Brigg still had some sort of useful passenger service, a 4 car working, fronted by a Cravens class 105, enters the station a while working a Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland service.
The footbridge in the picture has been preserved.
© Paul Brown.
A DMU Class 114 and 105, and a Class 31 locomotive at Cleethorpes railway station, NE Lincolnshire in 1985
Cleethorpes, 1985
A Class 114 waits to make the Barton while a 105 and a 31 take rest
And on that note I’m off to the seaside for pop and crisps. Positively Mediterranean on the Costa Humber today ☀️🍻☀️
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Most of those interregional trains over the Great Central went to Bournemouth or Poole.
Type 3 diesel heading Swindon train at night time Sheffield Victoria 9th April 1966. Within less than five months that journey would no longer be possible.
Within less than five months that journey would no longer be possible.
Nottingham Victoria externally pre re-development
On This Day 120 years ago the GWR & GCR joint line opened between Sudbury Hill Harrow and High Wycombe, along with West Ruislip, Denham, Gerrards Cross and Beaconsfield. West Ruislip is the setting for this 1984 photo: 'Leviathan' 50040 on a railtour
Sepia picture of outside of Marylebone station looking east through porte- cochere.
On this day
Brigg Station, 5th April 1997 with 153357 on the Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes service, work is on-going to replace the platform edging.
The station house had just been purchased by North Lincolnshire Council and is awaiting demolishment.
© Phillip Hewson
Today's #BRNostalgia is a view of the former marshalling yard at #Tinsley, Sheffield in 1996. It was already a shadow of its former self, but still hung on. paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p651486993/e... #railways #photography #nostalgia
Biomass on the Brigg Line ✅
6B63 -1009 - Immingham Biomass LP (DBC) to Drax Power Station.
Kindly filmed passing through Brigg railway station this morning by 📽️ Kev Genney
37424 T&T 37607 ,1Q50 1344 Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail) to Doncaster West Yard , Brigg, 2nd April 2026
© Brian Hall Photography
Liverpool Central trainshed from the north 1972. The site of the frontage is being redeveloped.
Liverpool Central train shed from the north 1972. The site of the frontage is being redeveloped.
9F near Rugby Central in June 1962
This was no April Fools in 2013.
Due to the landslide at Hatfield an effort was made to run Trans Pennine Express services to Cleethorpes via the Brigg line on a Saturday.
Here we see a number of units on route learning exercises.
© Daffyd the Signalman.
In the latter days of British Rail,
some imaginative planning was exercised with regard to DMU usage.
One such working involved a Tyseley DMU working the last Brigg Line services of the weekday, it's seen here at Barnetby around 1992.
© Alan Morgan
liverpool central station 1959
The Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway 1886 built, Kirton Lime Sidings Signal Box.
The line was singled in this location in early 1980s.
Freight traffic in the Lime Sidings finished in the early 1990s.
© Brigg Line Signaller.
Prior to the present Cleethorpes Road flyover in Grimsby, traffic had to cross the railway by a gated level crossing.
British Railways "Standard" class 7 locomotives crosses the level crossing to enter Grimsby Docks Station with a westbound freight.
© Jack Ray..
DC Rail locomotive 60099 in Aylesbury South Sidings on 20th March 2026.
A shiny 60099 at Aylesbury today.
Fully occupied Nottingham Victoria early 1950s from the north end with Great Northern locomotives in the bay platforms. A locomotive in the central road and a southbound mineral train.
Biomass on the Brigg Line ✅
Freight operator thinking outside the box.
One of the new Saturday services.
4B48 -0631 - Drax Power Station To Immingham Biomass LP (DBC).
Kindly filmed passing through Brigg railway station this morning by 🎥 Kev Genney.
