Bahamas 45596 at GCR Loughborough earlier this year.

The Driver who starred in the 1968 Tuesday's Documentary on this absurd closure of an overhead electrified railway with a 16 year old 3 mile tunnel: "Engines Must Not Enter the Potato Siding". Available on youtu.be/M6rDvBjKRgY?.... I saw both original showings

A few pictures from today's unofficial " Jolly Persons Outing" to Cleethorpes using the unique 1 round trip Monday to Friday Brigg Line service. Cleethorpes was packed with visitors, inbound Northern Railway service well loaded ✅

Manchester Central before it was an Exhibition Centre. Train will be travelling to St Pancras via what is now the Monsal Trail through the Peak District. @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social

The Hatfield landslip of 2013 caused an increase in traffic using the Brigg Line. On the 10th May, Freightliners 66956 approaches Brigg station with the Roxby to Bredbury binliner service. Going towards Barnetby is TPE unit 185125 on a crew training diagram. © Robert Pigott.

Early 1974 and a Class 40 exits the Kirton tunnel with a Cleethorpes to Manchester Piccadilly via Brigg line service. © Philip Crome

45063 is captured coming of Brigg line at Gainsborough Trent Junction, working a Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland midweek summer special on the 30th July 1979. © John Marshall

Kirton Lime Sidings in September 1989. The sidings were still in use for the receipt of cement traffic from Hope, and the Brigg Line was still furnished with a useable, albeit infrequent, six trains a day passenger service at this time © Alan Morgan.

A 1st Generation DMU is seen exiting the western portal of Kirton 'in" Lindsey Tunnel on 7th. August 1986 with a Cleethopes to Sheffield Midland service The line was singled here in 1982 due to economic reasons. © Alan Morgan.

On This Day Brigg Railway station in the snow with the signal box in the distance, on the 20th December 2009. The footbridge is now at the Wensleydale Railway awaiting restoration. © Chris Gray.

Kirton-in-Lindsey in 1980, and a photo of the western portal of the tunnel taken through the cab window of a Cleethorpes bound dmu service At this time the route was double-track and services operated every day except Sundays. © Peter Skegness.

An extract from a 1961 booklet on Angler's Excursions which, amongst the destinations, features Brigg.

The section of Metrolink between St Peter's Sq and Deansgate-Castlefield, during construction. 1991.

Today's #DailyDMU is a Metro-Cammell built Class 101 seen at a desolate end of the line at Barton-on-Humber on the 7th March 1990. paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p651486993/e... #railways #photography

On this day Retford low-level station on the 15th December 1990. And the 1136 Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes via Brigg service made up of a Class 101 has just arrived. © 15038

The track bed of the Great Central Banbury branch running over the top.

Film shot northbound over the Great Central Banbury branch and then at Woodford Halse and Culworth Junction including signal boxes.

Unhappy 10th Anniversary The old Great Central Railway footbridge removed at Brigg railway station, sits in the car park, whilst the gleaming new Network Rail non-ramp footbridge sits on the platform, built for a retirement town that can hardly use it. © Phillip Hewson

12th December 1940, a German bomb smashed through one of the Wicker Arches. The repair is still visible #Sheffield

Swithland Sidings on the preserved Great Central Railway, north of Rothley. Built for the GCR London–Sheffield main line (opened 1899, closed 1966) now restored for heritage freight & engineers’ trains by Great Central Railway plc #Swithland #Sidings #aerial #image #Leicester

Britannia Pacific No. 70036 'Boadicea' is leaving Retford station at the head of a Sheffield Victoria to Cleethorpes via Brigg line service on 22nd June 1963. This was before the underpass and Retford Low Level was built in 1965. © D Marroitt.

A Grim-day at Grimsby Town in 1984, as a class 104 approaches whilst working a Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland via Brigg line service. The rear of the same train is illustrated later at Gainsborough Central in the second photo. © Peter Skegness

Class 9F 92090 heads (tender-first) a north-bound freight through Nottingham Victoria.

Not aware of any later surviving Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Signal Box. Visited it and photographed it with the Great Central Railway Society in Summer of 1975.

Between New Basford and Bulwell Common

Steps leading to Victoria Station and Royal Victoria Hotel, from The Wicker #Sheffield

Northern Rail railbus 144006, crosses over the level crossing at Northorpe near Kirton in Lindsay on the Brigg line at 5mph, on Saturday 7th March 2020. The crossing gates were life expired, and were replaced with new barriers and lights soon after. © Daffyd the Signalman.

Oxford Road station #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels

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Its summer 1984, and on virtually every Sunday somewhere along the Brigg Line there was action. 37132 straddles Brigg level crossing with an engineers train, after being involved in work to single the line between Brigg and Wrawby Junction. © Phillip Hewson

Warming up @GcrGreat . Empty unit is followed by D5370 running Loughborough Central to Swithland Sidings to collect mineral wagons. #Raturday

The Humber Valentine railtour, leaves Barnetby bound for the Grimsby - Immingham Light Railway on the 14th February 1987. This railtour had started from Wolverhampton, and was routed back via the Brigg Line. Phillip Hewson photo is enlivened by the presence of 45115 and 47336.

1Q50 -1344 -Derby R.T.C (Network Rail) To Doncaster C.H.S , passing Brigg level crossing and signal box this evening. Kindly filmed by Kev Genney 📷

Excellent news for the Brigg line on the freight operations side, from late December extra biomass diagrams will use the line for the first time on Saturday's. 📷 Brian Hall Photography

Would have happened in the late 1950s if the idea of extending the Woodhead Route electrification over @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social main line to Marylebone had been implemented. Instead Marylebone is the only diesel only London terminus.

Last pictures of the original GCR footbridge at Brigg, taken 10 years ago, this was replaced soon after by a new controversial Network Rail footbridge, built without ramps for a retirement town that can hardly use it. nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/last...

Kirton Lime Sidings Signal Box Brigg Sidings Signal Box Brigg Railway Station Brigg Signal Box & Level Crossing 1977.

John Quick the President of the Great Central Railway Society was on that train. It joined the main line at Bulwell Common and went on to Marylebone. He showed us his cine footage some years ago but its been published on a Marsden Rail video since.

Marylebone which had three train sheds whenever I visited it. The decision to demolish one of them has cost people a lot of shoe leather because the station needed six platforms after all. @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social

I remember a guided tour visiting the electro pneumatic signal box at Elsecar Junction - an early piece of computing by @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social signalling engineer Alf Bound.