Brigg Buses, trains and taxis

Call Connect Plus service

Paul Sanders - 25 April 2006

Hi. I am emailing you to advise of a new demand responsive bus service which will be extended to Brigg from May 2nd.

As a result of customer feedback the successful Call Connect Plus service based in Caistor will be extended to Brigg Bus Station.

Call Connect operates on a dial a bus basis and runs between 7am and 7pm Monday to Saturday. As well as serving villages around Caistor and Market Rasen it also provides a link at Caistor with the Stagecoach Interconnect 3 service between Lincoln, Market Rasen, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, offering much improved travel opportunities.

For more information or to book a journey, clients should call 0845 234 3344 (open between 9am and 4.30pm on weekdays and 9am to 3pm on Saturdays).

Regards, Paul Sanders

Transport Direct Website

Sunday, 13 February 2005

The government has unveiled a new website www.transportdirect.info which aims to integrate information about all forms of public transport in the uk. The website cost over £16 million to develop to date. So how does it work and how useful is it?

Firstly, the website loads quickly - always a plus point - and does not rely on any 'gimmicky' technology meaning that it is able to display on a wide variety of computers.

The site is laid out in a simple and fun way with a simple logical flow and options. The main service being the 'door to door planner' which allows you to compare a journey from A to B with public transport and by private car.

Here in the Northern Lincolnshire region the website offered up a selection of routes in under one minute - which isn't bad if you think about the many hundreds of thousands of locations and bus and train routes.

From Brigg to Grimsby Railway Station travelling at 8am on Monday morning it suggested a route which went via the 365 bus through Ashby to Scunthorpe Railway station and then a train to Grimsby. This journey would take a calculated 1 hour 46 minutes. The car journey direct from Brigg to Grimsby would take 28 minutes.

Trying the same thing from Brigg to Barnetby Railway Station gave a journey time of 1 hour 28 minutes - also via Scunthorpe railway station. The car journey taking eleven minutes.

The fact that journey from Brigg to Barnetby takes over an hour by public transport doesn't indicate any problem with the software or the Transport Direct website - however it does highlight the absurd public transport system here in the wilds of darkest North Lincolnshire.

A side note: there is in fact a bus (The Wolds Villager) which will soon make a stop at the Railway Station in Barnetby. The timetable data for this service is presumably not yet installed in the Transport Direct database.

All in all the Transport Direct website is an excellent design and shall be of real use to potential bus and train travellers. However, having said this, a few more direct bus routes - as described below - would turn an interesting theoretical planning exercise into a practical and realistic way of going to work and to the shops. We can only dream on ... ;-)

68 Wolds Villager Bus Timetable

Thursday, 18 November 2004

A new service - the '68 Wolds Villager' connecting Brigg to Barnetby and Kirmington has begun operating. It runs to a timetable which can be varied to allow for diversions away from a set route to pick up and set down passengers.

The service operates from Monday to Saturday and begins at the Brigg Leisure Centre and goes via Cary Lane, Wrawby Church, Barnetby (Kings Road, Post Office, South Street), Melton Ross and New Barnetby and terminates at Kirmington Chapel. It then returns to Brigg along the same route.

Many thanks to Wrawby.org for the timetable information.

Timetables are available from the Brigg Tourist Office and public library. Call the TravelLine on 0871 200 22 33 for full details. See also: www.traveline.info.

Lincoln to Brigg

Wednesday, 14 July 2004

Hi, I want to come to Brigg for the mind body and spirit event that is on at the Ancholme leisure centre on 14th August. I hope to come on the bus from Lincoln if it runs!

Can you tell me the route it takes through Brigg and how far it is from the train station to the leisure centre in case. I didn't know you had a train station till I saw your map.

Regards, Julie

Ed: Julie, you're in luck! The 14th of August is a Saturday: any other day of the week you'd be stuck but it is possible to make it to Brigg and back to Lincoln on the train.

To find train times browse to National Rail. The route from Lincoln to Brigg requires a change at Barnetby-le-Wold. The journey there is: Lincoln (dep. 10:27) to Barnetby (direction Cleethorpes) (arr. 11:00). Change at Barnetby (dep. 11:40) to arrive at Brigg 11:50. It is about a ten minute walk from the train station to the leisure centre.

There are two journeys back. From the townside platform (with the telephone box): Brigg (dep. 13:32) to Barnetby. Change to Lincoln train (dep. 13:44) - 2 minute change!?. The second option is: Brigg (dep. 16:54) to Barnetby (arr. 17:06). There is a long wait and change till the 18:26 to Lincoln. Hope this is of help. It is also just about possible to get to Brigg from Lincoln via Scunthorpe on the bus. I don't have details of this route but you can ring the TravelLine on 0870 608 2 608.

Solutions ... ?

Brigg interchange

Wednesday, 6 August 2003

Brigg has always been a crossing point - a natural junction. Its name coming from the bridge over the Ancholme. Joining the roads from Scunthorpe to Grimsby and from Lincoln to Hull. That simple wooden bridge built a thousand years ago by the first settlers in Brigg, may have been replaced then eventually by-passed, yet the need for a crossing is still here. Brigg is the 'bridge' of northern Lincolnshire. The natural place for travellers to congregate and to move onwards.

The diagram on the right indicates Brigg's central position within north Lincolnshire. Its sits next to the motorway from the coast at Grimsby inland to Scunthorpe and Doncaster. The Roman road the Ermine Street (A15) passes a few miles away running from Lincoln through Brigg, Barton and to the north bank (Hull).

The threatened removal of the 909 bus service shall mean that this whole region will consist of towns and cities with no practical connections by public transport. And this at a time when all of the political parties are 100% behind the promotion of alternatives to the use of private cars.

The solution to this conundrum is not difficult: just 'join the dots': get a map of the area of northern Lincolnshire around the Humber and draw straight lines between the cities. At the centre of the star of lines lies Brigg. A natural place to site an interchange for two new express bus services in the region: one from Hull (and Barton) to Lincoln and the other from Grimsby (plus the airport) to Scunthorpe. The fastest roads are used, the distances the shortest and the impact on the environment the least.

There would be many practical details to sort out, but the end result would be a simple to use, economical and swift transport system which would free up the roads of private cars and make it possible to commute to work within the wider area. Brigg would return to its roots as a meeting point.