That's my Friday fix taken care of thanks Johnny. It's been years since I visited Cleethorpes and that was by car, I've never travelled on that particular line. 👍.
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Yes . I don't get why people bother trying to find parking. I'm always asked about parking recommendations which I'm no way able to give because I don't drive.
I'm glad the Kirton Lindsey route is back on the timetable. I took the Saturday only parliamentary service many years ago when there was big talk about closing it.
@@hornet1068 Yes, it's nice it is still there. Though it would be better if there were just a few more trains on the route! Thanks so much for watching 👍
We lived in Habrough in the mid 70's and during school holidays we went back to Sheffield to visit family,the train we used often was a class 40 hauling two MK1 coaches and a string of empty newspaper vans which was routed via Brigg etc
7:37 he’s there most days, catches it on his phone each way, switch between platforms for his shot. Saw him and have a wave yesterday on one of my front end trips!
@@MarkLong-ye1zk now that is an unusual pastime, recording the trains at Brigg every day. Still, i do some pretty daft things on this channel, so I'll leave it at that. Thanks so much for watching 👍
Lovely video - thank you. I live in Sheffield and in the last few years have taken to 'riding the rails' for a day out, but haven't yet visited the Lincolnshire east coast. I must do so! (Incidentally, there's a good pub in the station at Worksop.)
@@tomburke5311 it's definitely a reasonably priced and quirky little trip, so I'd advise it. I suppose for a longer stay you could go on Northern in one direction and do the TPE route in the return. Thanks for the tip on Worksop. Always on the lookout for a good railway pub!
As a resident of cleethorpes and i have adopted cleethorpes train station. Cleethorpes is a ghost of its former self due to covid and wrong decisions by our tory lead council that has seen it decline. Those rides on beach do still work but only in summer, but as they went put up in 1980s even i wouldnt ride them lol
@@admiralpegasuscc haha thanks for that. I think i would keep my feet on the sand too wrt those rides! I hope you can improve both the station and the service at Cleethorpes. We need more public transport options. Best wishes to you 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels sadly my adoption is with friends of stations so ill be looking after plants.. But if the northern service can be popular enough they may increase it at some point
Great trip, I managed to do the line from Barnetby to Worksop in June 2023. The train was busy with people with luggage as - you've guessed it - the preceding TPE service had been cancelled, but in this instance they stayed on the train, presumably heading for Manchester Airport. Getting off at Worksop (to change for Nottingham) I was able to visit the excellent Mallard micropub on the platform, you need to try it. Beer in Cleethorpes - we moved from Dorset to Nottingham in November 2018 and used my part time working to explore the 'local' area. This included trips to Cleethorpes and Skegvegas in the middle of winter! Cleethorpes No.2 had Ringwood Best (aka Razorback) on, you can't get away from the stuff! Looking forward to some more trips.
@@kevinellis8869 Yes, worksop pub has already been mentioned in the comments. Made a note of that one! And yes, Skegvegas! Must pop out there one of these days. Reminds me that down here it's called Torbaydos!
Glad you resisted saying you were "doing a no. 2" after your mushy peas and chips LOL When I did my "gap year" between school and university in 1980 (I did seven term entry to Oxford so had January to October to fill) I worked at the local Standard Fireworks factory in Crossland Moor and quite a few of the regular workers took the train to Cleethorpes for the summer holidays. I think there were more trains then.
The last time I visited Cleethorpes was August 1986 on “The Jolly Fisherman” tour from Lime Street to Cleethorpes hauled by D200. Cracking day out, bit of a late finish so good job it was school summer holidays. Happy times.
Nice to see you enjoying one of my haunts when visiting (the No 2 pub at Cleethorpes) - chip shop handy too 😊 There is a demand responsive bus you can book from Barnetby to Humberside airport (Lincolnshire Call Connect). Kirton Lindsey is worth a visit, but a bit of a walk into town (as I discovered last year). Great video.
@@peterskegness3204 thanks for that extra info. You'd think the airport would update its website with that info! Thanks too for the kind words. Much appreciated 👍
I'll just add the wait north of Sheffield is not for a p;atform as there are always quite a few available. It's a path through Nunnery Main Line Junction. A noted choke point that still hasn't been fixed despite there having been original Midland Railway plans to fix it from 1913. Turns out going from 11 lines through (7 platforms) to 2 lines it doesn't work well when it's the way to Barnsley, Wakefield and Doncaster
Lots to enjoy here .. not least the fact that this paparazzi-tailed, once-daily special service is actually just a sh*tty class 150 with a 3x2 seating configuration and half an inch of legroom. Well, it made me chuckle anyway. Great stuff, cheers!
Absolutely - stick lipstick on a pig, and everybody pulls out a camera and says "hey, is that pig wearing lipstick?"... Then again, maybe we shouldn't decry a 150 having its moment in the sun 😉
Pity you didn't get time to try the Cleethorpes Coastal Light Railway, not far beyond the leisure centre. Thanks for the Cleethorpes videos, brings back some happy memories for me.
Remember travelling on the Brigg Line on a Class 144 Pacer! Great video but it's a shame they changed it from 6 trains on Saturday (3 in each direction) to a once per day weekday service
Crikey yes. That's a bloody long way on a Pacer! The day change made it easier for me though, as i often play football on a Saturday 😁 We must catch up when we are next passing each other. Be nice to have a chat 👍
@@k1eranjames haha! I just replied on the other thread. Amazed that Brigg has two people filming the train! If we'd known about each other, i could have nicked your shots for the external cutaway 😉 Best wishes to you
Very nice video. Nice to see the Brigg line promoted. Shame it’s not used all time sadly. Just a couple of things, not being nasty or offensive, it Brocklesby not Brocklesbury lol 😂 Wrawby has 137 levers in it. The frame consisted of 132 levers plus 5 additional levers labelled A-E. I used to love working the box
@@JIMSIG15 oh sorry i got the name wrong. Not taken as offensive. I love being corrected as it's the only way i will learn, so thank you. Fantastic to hear you used to work the box. I bet you have some stories to tell! Thanks so much for watching the video 👍
Thanks for the video as usual Jonny…I always enjoy your uploads. I just wondered if you might visit the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal one day? Perhaps it could be included in some wider travels in Germany?
@@andyml1 I'm definitely going to ride that one. Not sure it needs another RUclips video as there's so many good ones. But as a nerd, i definitely want to ride it for myself! And yes. I should include Germany in the channel in the coming months, you are right! Thanks for watching this one 👍
Great video of my home town. Just a slight correction it's brocklesby junction and not blocklesbury. The estate was owned by the Earl of Yarborough and when he wanted to travel by train it stopped at Brocklesby station for him. The Wetherspoon next to Grimsby Town is the Yarborough Hotel.
It's my local area too I was actually filming this train at Brigg on the day this video was filmed but I can't be seen cause I'm on the opposite side 😊
@@JohnnyHooverTravels no I was on the other platform filming my weekly RUclips series called Brigg Wednesdays, the man filming on his phone is my good friend kev 👍
@@paulmoy9736 Yes it's a funny old line. Not sure what value it holds with so few passenger trains 🤷♂️ - mind you i suspect it is a useful freight line
Which were more use than the current 1 each way service. My late parents lived at Woodhouse, I used to be able to visit them every 2 weeks, out and back by this route now it would be no use to me at all. When my late partner and I lived at Stradbroke, which is near Woodhouse, we could have a Saturday Afternoon in Cleethorpes.
@@JohnnyHooverTravels I did Sheffield-Cleethorpes via Brigg in May 1987...back then it was 3 trains each way daily (not just on a Saturday, as the service subsequently became). The service was still a first generation DMU. I would guess the Brigg line started to decline heavily when the Woodhead system closed, followed a few years later by the long decline and final closure of Tinsley yard. At the same time, the remodelling of Doncaster in the mid-80s ahead of ECML electrification (and the building of the Selby Diversion) made it easier for Immingham-bound freight to run via Doncaster. Ditto, remodelling at Lincoln around the same time improved the route via Market Rasen. Presumably the Brigg line is still needed for freight in some form but I doubt it's busy nowadays.
The class 150. 40 years of abject, profound depression on a rails. Futuristic in 1986 but a sorry excuse for a train. I did enjoy the video and education of an obscure journey.
The 150s were very well received by ordinary passengers in the mid-80s and substantially increased ridership (and hence also overcrowding) pretty much everywhere they were introduced. They had massively faster acceleration and were much more reliable than the old DMUs they replaced. I think enthusiasts from the 80s will never forgive the class 150 for being the first Sprinter they rode in, during which they quickly realised that the view behind the driver on the old DMUs was going to disappear pretty quickly. That certainly was my reaction in 1985, on my first 150 ride from Derby to Crewe. After nearly 40 years they are bound to be tatty and flagging now, in comparison to all the newer stuff, but they've been an extremely successful and cost effective workhorse for the railway.
This was the first time I watched a video of this rare line, if I remembering correctly was before only services on Saturday or Sunday, but I am not sure if it was two return trains that day
In August 2017 I travelled on a Saturday from Manchester to Gainsborough to watch a football match ( National League North , Gainsborough 1 Leamington 2 ). Changing at Sheffield I took what I think was then the only scheduled train on this route in the whole week! In other words a once a week service on a Saturday. Arriving at Gainsborough Central ( a forlorn station shorn of infrastructure) it seemed odd that the station in the town centre should be so downgraded whereas my return journey to Sheffield had to start from Gainsborough Lea Road which was quite a distance on foot from the football ground! So I am pleased that at least there is now one train per day - an improvement!
@@TreforThynne What a story Inspiring and interesting It seems you are from Leamington Spa? I just saw a program about railway design and art deco They visited this station and it’s pub, can you please go down to that pub and raise a toast for this railway line If I am not wrong was Gainsborough a steel town and the central station was very important for me should they be thinking of redirect the line from Lincoln to go via central and a new bridge north of the town to Sheffield
@@Kulla1berg as the replies say, yes it used to be a weekend working. Oh and the replies below are very interesting. I really should visit Leamington Spa station sometime!
Northern did start running an hourly service to Sheffield from Gainsborough Central (just a shuttle service added to the then-Saturday-only Cleethorpes via Brigg service) on weekdays and Saturdays back in 2019 to revive its regular use, after over 25 years of having just three trains on Saturdays only. However, that was short-lived thanks to "you know what" the year after, and then a more limited weekday service (a handful of Sheffield shuttles terminating at Gainsborough Central) resumed in 2022. Sadly, services to the station were cut down again the following year during the May 2023 timetable change, as it's just the one train a day now on that round trip between Sheffield and Cleethorpes on weekdays only, with no weekend trains. While this is still a better service than what ran between 1993 and 2019 (five days a week instead of one), the Saturday service is now gone.
@@AymanTravelTransport Yes I've read about the old shuttle and others have commented about it too. Seems it was good to relieve crowding on the stopping services into Sheffield. Still there you go. You know what did for a lot of things! Thanks for the interesting comment 👍
i hope that the EMR class 222 being the last train in the video is Johnny foreshadowing that its the next video, cant wait for my local mainline to be featured on the channel 😊😊
@@masterforehead2372 sorry it isn't. But i do need to get some EMR action on the channel. May wait until the new Aurora trains come into service! Thanks for watching this one 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels There aren't exactly that many buses in Brigg either I'm lead to believe . I suspect most of the time non-drivers have to call a taxi!
We love these little English jaunts you do :) Voice Over Man always has so much info - does he do all the research or do you have to help him with it? Thanks for another cheerful and informative vid, very enjoyable.
@@ampersand. Yes. This trip was a lot of fun. I leave voiceover man to it... demarcation... if i start butting in, he's going to want to come along on the trips...
The 6 Saturday days were better spread out. Better than nothing, these out and back trains are out after morning peak use and back for evening services. It would be stood at Sheffield all day otherwise. Its a shame the Gainsborough Central stoppers haven't come back. Fast Worksop to Sheffield were ideal to cut overcrowding.
@@wrangerrob Yes, i see what you mean from the timings ie can run the diagram between the morning and evening peaks around Sheffield. And i agree that the Gainsborough Central to Sheffield would have been useful to keep on 🤷♂️ Thanks so much for watching 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Yes they were. I remember those days . An hour or so in McDonalds a short walk from Gainsborough Central before catching a train back home.
I remember me and my family having a hastily organised holiday for the week in Grimsby and Cleethorpes. We originally wanted to go to Alsace-Lorraine in France, but the Covid-19 pandemic beginning in 2020 put paid to those desires. Instead, wanting to go somewhere we hadn't been before and was still in England, we went for Grimsby. Although there were some who asked why we chose Grimsby as a place to go on holiday, but genuinely, we had a great time and the fish and chips on the pier was superb and it was great to go somewhere that was different from home for a week
@JohnnyHooverTravels no problem 😊 speaking of once a day trains though, closer to home (for me), in 2013, by chance, I came across another once a day train, from Streatham Hill, via Tulse Hill to London Bridge. I recorded the bizarre situation where the train was announced on the PA at Streatham Hill and almost immediately afterwards, the PA switched to "stand away from the train at Platform 2, this train is not in use," and much to the bewilderment of one passenger, I ignored the message saying it wasn't in use, opened the door and climbed onboard. It used a rarely used stretch of track that links the Crystal Palace line with the Tulse Hill line
Enjoyed this a lot. Lots of information. On one of these trips, do you stay over? Or is it possible to get home? Thanks very much. Have a nice weekend.
@@clivelangham435 thanks for the kind words! I was using a North East rover ticket and for this day i was staying with my daughter in York for a couple of nights. I did a loop that day York, Doncaster, Clee, Sheffield, York. Best wishes to you too 👍
@@phronsiekeys Yes i did wonder that too. One for someone more geeky than me I suspect... stand up Mr Marshall and let us know! As ever, thanks so much for watching along. Viewers can never be taken for granted 👍
@@terranceparsons5185 well i here from another comment that it has a great station pub, so let's not be too hasty! Ah and that old argument about where the North starts. You know, some people think of the people that live in Inverness as southern softies...
@@iskra1234 ah well... i liked the idea of having my chips near the station. But i defer to your local knowledge 😀 Thanks too for watching. It is always appreciated 👍
ironically (both) papa's at the other end of the line in Sheffield both closed recently 😑 Guessing good Fish and chips wasn't for Sheffield. To be fair they both were kind of in unideal locations.
@@martinholland3938 Yes it is a very quick turnaround. I think you'd need a few trips to make it worthwhile to see all that Cleethorpes has to offer! Thanks for watching 👍
Two pubs, chips at the seaside, and trains. The editing team did a great job putting this one together.
@@sandiandgregh Yes. I ticked a lot of boxes on this one. I will pop your thanks on a note and slide it under the door of the edit room 👍
Ta for the video. Totally agree about using the slower service.
Thakns. And thanks too for watching 👍
Great video as always Johnny.
@@Timstravels01 thanks Tim! 👍
That's my Friday fix taken care of thanks Johnny. It's been years since I visited Cleethorpes and that was by car, I've never travelled on that particular line. 👍.
@@stevewareing8525 happy to be here supporting your addiction 😉
Thanks so much for the continued support too 👍
Definitely worth visiting by train, especially given it'll drop you off right in front of the beach without worrying about where to park.
@@AymanTravelTransport tru dat 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels Yes . I don't get why people bother trying to find parking. I'm always asked about parking recommendations which I'm no way able to give because I don't drive.
I'm glad the Kirton Lindsey route is back on the timetable. I took the Saturday only parliamentary service many years ago when there was big talk about closing it.
@@hornet1068 Yes, it's nice it is still there. Though it would be better if there were just a few more trains on the route!
Thanks so much for watching 👍
There is also a service from Sheffield to Carlisle and back with Northern, it runs just once a week on Sundays.
@@gerrymanning1766 ah. Very interesting. Thanks for that 👍
Is that the one that goes through Clitheroe?
And thanks too for watching the video 👍
We lived in Habrough in the mid 70's and during school holidays we went back to Sheffield to visit family,the train we used often was a class 40 hauling two MK1 coaches and a string of empty newspaper vans which was routed via Brigg etc
@@andrewdavid9846 great. Not thought about newspaper vans for years. Takes you back. Thanks for that!
And thanks too for watching 👍
Great video Johnny . As always, very informative
@@melturn5654 thanks Mel. And thanks too for watching 👍
7:37 he’s there most days, catches it on his phone each way, switch between platforms for his shot. Saw him and have a wave yesterday on one of my front end trips!
@@MarkLong-ye1zk now that is an unusual pastime, recording the trains at Brigg every day. Still, i do some pretty daft things on this channel, so I'll leave it at that.
Thanks so much for watching 👍
Lovely video - thank you. I live in Sheffield and in the last few years have taken to 'riding the rails' for a day out, but haven't yet visited the Lincolnshire east coast. I must do so!
(Incidentally, there's a good pub in the station at Worksop.)
@@tomburke5311 it's definitely a reasonably priced and quirky little trip, so I'd advise it. I suppose for a longer stay you could go on Northern in one direction and do the TPE route in the return.
Thanks for the tip on Worksop. Always on the lookout for a good railway pub!
As a resident of cleethorpes and i have adopted cleethorpes train station. Cleethorpes is a ghost of its former self due to covid and wrong decisions by our tory lead council that has seen it decline.
Those rides on beach do still work but only in summer, but as they went put up in 1980s even i wouldnt ride them lol
@@admiralpegasuscc haha thanks for that. I think i would keep my feet on the sand too wrt those rides!
I hope you can improve both the station and the service at Cleethorpes. We need more public transport options.
Best wishes to you 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels sadly my adoption is with friends of stations so ill be looking after plants..
But if the northern service can be popular enough they may increase it at some point
Great trip, I managed to do the line from Barnetby to Worksop in June 2023. The train was busy with people with luggage as - you've guessed it - the preceding TPE service had been cancelled, but in this instance they stayed on the train, presumably heading for Manchester Airport.
Getting off at Worksop (to change for Nottingham) I was able to visit the excellent Mallard micropub on the platform, you need to try it.
Beer in Cleethorpes - we moved from Dorset to Nottingham in November 2018 and used my part time working to explore the 'local' area. This included trips to Cleethorpes and Skegvegas in the middle of winter! Cleethorpes No.2 had Ringwood Best (aka Razorback) on, you can't get away from the stuff!
Looking forward to some more trips.
@@kevinellis8869 Yes, worksop pub has already been mentioned in the comments. Made a note of that one!
And yes, Skegvegas! Must pop out there one of these days. Reminds me that down here it's called Torbaydos!
Glad you resisted saying you were "doing a no. 2" after your mushy peas and chips LOL
When I did my "gap year" between school and university in 1980
(I did seven term entry to Oxford so had January to October to fill)
I worked at the local Standard Fireworks factory in Crossland Moor
and quite a few of the regular workers took the train to Cleethorpes for the summer holidays.
I think there were more trains then.
@@johncrwarner Yes. Don't think i didn't think about it when writing the voiceover script 😉
The last time I visited Cleethorpes was August 1986 on “The Jolly Fisherman” tour from Lime Street to Cleethorpes hauled by D200. Cracking day out, bit of a late finish so good job it was school summer holidays. Happy times.
@@jonhigginson4096 oh yes "The Jolly Fisherman". I do recall that branding!
Thanks so much for watching and sharing that memory 👍
A fantastic video, Thank you for uploading this 😀 😊
@@lovefive5733 you are very welcome. Thank you for watching it 👍
Cool video showcasing the Brigg Line!
@@billygeorgepricespackland thanks you're welcome. I've fancied a ride in this one for some time! 👍
Excellent JH . Was hoping you could fit in the Barton line. Another quirky one !
@@kevincollis4768 good point. I shall add that one to the list 👍
Great Video Johnny
@@paulgibsonphotography thanks Paul 👍
Good stuff. I love exploring by train.
@@colinriley123 cheers Colin. Well worth a trip out there if you're thirsty 😉
Good video, thank you for sharing this 😊
@@christinehodge3608 you are very welcome. Thanks for watching 👍
Nice to see you enjoying one of my haunts when visiting (the No 2 pub at Cleethorpes) - chip shop handy too 😊 There is a demand responsive bus you can book from Barnetby to Humberside airport (Lincolnshire Call Connect). Kirton Lindsey is worth a visit, but a bit of a walk into town (as I discovered last year). Great video.
@@peterskegness3204 thanks for that extra info. You'd think the airport would update its website with that info!
Thanks too for the kind words. Much appreciated 👍
I'll just add the wait north of Sheffield is not for a p;atform as there are always quite a few available. It's a path through Nunnery Main Line Junction. A noted choke point that still hasn't been fixed despite there having been original Midland Railway plans to fix it from 1913. Turns out going from 11 lines through (7 platforms) to 2 lines it doesn't work well when it's the way to Barnsley, Wakefield and Doncaster
@@bartsimho1192 oh, thanks for that. Much appreciated extra information. Thank you. And thanks too for watching 👍
Video was very beautiful ❤️
@@trailwayt9HG thank you 👍
Good trip and you had yours beers & chips ! :)
@@andywillis2650 indeed i did! Turned out i got chips and peas for lunch two days in a row... something i can manage quite easily 😉
Hi great content thanks Andy
@@andywright3450 you are very welcome. Thanks for watching 👍
Lots to enjoy here .. not least the fact that this paparazzi-tailed, once-daily special service is actually just a sh*tty class 150 with a 3x2 seating configuration and half an inch of legroom. Well, it made me chuckle anyway. Great stuff, cheers!
Absolutely - stick lipstick on a pig, and everybody pulls out a camera and says "hey, is that pig wearing lipstick?"... Then again, maybe we shouldn't decry a 150 having its moment in the sun 😉
Pity you didn't get time to try the Cleethorpes Coastal Light Railway, not far beyond the leisure centre. Thanks for the Cleethorpes videos, brings back some happy memories for me.
@@arthurtownsend8843 as ever, it was a quick turnaround... should have made the time to pop up and have a look.
Thanks for watching 👍
Remember travelling on the Brigg Line on a Class 144 Pacer! Great video but it's a shame they changed it from 6 trains on Saturday (3 in each direction) to a once per day weekday service
Crikey yes. That's a bloody long way on a Pacer!
The day change made it easier for me though, as i often play football on a Saturday 😁
We must catch up when we are next passing each other. Be nice to have a chat 👍
I was filming with that bloke at brigg on this day but iwas on the platform your train came in on 😊
@@k1eranjames haha! I just replied on the other thread. Amazed that Brigg has two people filming the train!
If we'd known about each other, i could have nicked your shots for the external cutaway 😉
Best wishes to you
Nice video Johnny, love the old stations, full of character,
@@BrianField-p5d thanks Brian. And thanks for watching 👍
I use to work at Sheffield Midland in the 70s as a secondman good days, CL31s 45s 46s 40s 47s.
@@tonyrobinson362 sounds like a great time to work at Sheffield! Thanks for watching the videos 👍
Very nice video. Nice to see the Brigg line promoted. Shame it’s not used all time sadly. Just a couple of things, not being nasty or offensive, it Brocklesby not Brocklesbury lol 😂 Wrawby has 137 levers in it. The frame consisted of 132 levers plus 5 additional levers labelled A-E. I used to love working the box
@@JIMSIG15 oh sorry i got the name wrong. Not taken as offensive. I love being corrected as it's the only way i will learn, so thank you.
Fantastic to hear you used to work the box. I bet you have some stories to tell!
Thanks so much for watching the video 👍
Thanks for the video as usual Jonny…I always enjoy your uploads. I just wondered if you might visit the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal one day? Perhaps it could be included in some wider travels in Germany?
@@andyml1 I'm definitely going to ride that one. Not sure it needs another RUclips video as there's so many good ones. But as a nerd, i definitely want to ride it for myself!
And yes. I should include Germany in the channel in the coming months, you are right!
Thanks for watching this one 👍
Great video of my home town.
Just a slight correction it's brocklesby junction and not blocklesbury.
The estate was owned by the Earl of Yarborough and when he wanted to travel by train it stopped at Brocklesby station for him.
The Wetherspoon next to Grimsby Town is the Yarborough Hotel.
It's my local area too I was actually filming this train at Brigg on the day this video was filmed but I can't be seen cause I'm on the opposite side 😊
@@terrymoore9388 thanks for the correction and the extra information. Most helpful 👍
@@k1eranjames so you aren't the guy on the other platform! Now I'm amazed to think there were TWO people at Brigg watching the train go by! 😀
@@JohnnyHooverTravels no I was on the other platform filming my weekly RUclips series called Brigg Wednesdays, the man filming on his phone is my good friend kev 👍
@@k1eranjames well do pass my regards on to Kev and mention he gets a vignette in my movie 👍
You are lucky there is one train a day now. When I worked there it was 3 trains on a Saturday only.
@@paulmoy9736 Yes it's a funny old line. Not sure what value it holds with so few passenger trains 🤷♂️ - mind you i suspect it is a useful freight line
Which were more use than the current 1 each way service. My late parents lived at Woodhouse, I used to be able to visit them every 2 weeks, out and back by this route now it would be no use to me at all. When my late partner and I lived at Stradbroke, which is near Woodhouse, we could have a Saturday Afternoon in Cleethorpes.
@@chriswade7470 good point 👍
@@JohnnyHooverTravels I did Sheffield-Cleethorpes via Brigg in May 1987...back then it was 3 trains each way daily (not just on a Saturday, as the service subsequently became). The service was still a first generation DMU. I would guess the Brigg line started to decline heavily when the Woodhead system closed, followed a few years later by the long decline and final closure of Tinsley yard. At the same time, the remodelling of Doncaster in the mid-80s ahead of ECML electrification (and the building of the Selby Diversion) made it easier for Immingham-bound freight to run via Doncaster. Ditto, remodelling at Lincoln around the same time improved the route via Market Rasen. Presumably the Brigg line is still needed for freight in some form but I doubt it's busy nowadays.
The class 150. 40 years of abject, profound depression on a rails. Futuristic in 1986 but a sorry excuse for a train. I did enjoy the video and education of an obscure journey.
Yes, the dear old 150 doesn't have many friends. Solidly built, but maybe too long in service now...
Thanks so much for watching 👍
The 150s were very well received by ordinary passengers in the mid-80s and substantially increased ridership (and hence also overcrowding) pretty much everywhere they were introduced. They had massively faster acceleration and were much more reliable than the old DMUs they replaced. I think enthusiasts from the 80s will never forgive the class 150 for being the first Sprinter they rode in, during which they quickly realised that the view behind the driver on the old DMUs was going to disappear pretty quickly. That certainly was my reaction in 1985, on my first 150 ride from Derby to Crewe. After nearly 40 years they are bound to be tatty and flagging now, in comparison to all the newer stuff, but they've been an extremely successful and cost effective workhorse for the railway.
This was the first time I watched a video of this rare line, if I remembering correctly was before only services on Saturday or Sunday, but I am not sure if it was two return trains that day
Hi, Three trains Sat. only previously. Note that the one a day service now is Mon.-Fri. only.
@@michaeljefferson4186thanks for your answer
I am living in Sweden so not easy to check how it was in the past
In August 2017 I travelled on a Saturday from Manchester to Gainsborough to watch a football match ( National League North , Gainsborough 1 Leamington 2 ). Changing at Sheffield I took what I think was then the only scheduled train on this route in the whole week! In other words a once a week service on a Saturday. Arriving at Gainsborough Central ( a forlorn station shorn of infrastructure) it seemed odd that the station in the town centre should be so downgraded whereas my return journey to Sheffield had to start from Gainsborough Lea Road which was quite a distance on foot from the football ground! So I am pleased that at least there is now one train per day - an improvement!
@@TreforThynne
What a story
Inspiring and interesting
It seems you are from Leamington Spa? I just saw a program about railway design and art deco
They visited this station and it’s pub, can you please go down to that pub and raise a toast for this railway line
If I am not wrong was Gainsborough a steel town and the central station was very important for me should they be thinking of redirect the line from Lincoln to go via central and a new bridge north of the town to Sheffield
@@Kulla1berg as the replies say, yes it used to be a weekend working. Oh and the replies below are very interesting. I really should visit Leamington Spa station sometime!
Northern did start running an hourly service to Sheffield from Gainsborough Central (just a shuttle service added to the then-Saturday-only Cleethorpes via Brigg service) on weekdays and Saturdays back in 2019 to revive its regular use, after over 25 years of having just three trains on Saturdays only. However, that was short-lived thanks to "you know what" the year after, and then a more limited weekday service (a handful of Sheffield shuttles terminating at Gainsborough Central) resumed in 2022. Sadly, services to the station were cut down again the following year during the May 2023 timetable change, as it's just the one train a day now on that round trip between Sheffield and Cleethorpes on weekdays only, with no weekend trains. While this is still a better service than what ran between 1993 and 2019 (five days a week instead of one), the Saturday service is now gone.
@@AymanTravelTransport Yes I've read about the old shuttle and others have commented about it too. Seems it was good to relieve crowding on the stopping services into Sheffield. Still there you go. You know what did for a lot of things!
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i hope that the EMR class 222 being the last train in the video is Johnny foreshadowing that its the next video, cant wait for my local mainline to be featured on the channel 😊😊
@@masterforehead2372 sorry it isn't. But i do need to get some EMR action on the channel. May wait until the new Aurora trains come into service!
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what a good journey shame that there's only 1 northern train a day but yea I enjoyed this video so thank you
@@calebmumby5803 certainly no fun if you are in Brigg. One train a day means you get the bus most times i reckon!
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@@JohnnyHooverTravels There aren't exactly that many buses in Brigg either I'm lead to believe . I suspect most of the time non-drivers have to call a taxi!
@@GabrielsReviews i think there's a regular one up to Scunthorpe. But yes, it will probably be a country frequency 🤷♂️
We love these little English jaunts you do :) Voice Over Man always has so much info - does he do all the research or do you have to help him with it? Thanks for another cheerful and informative vid, very enjoyable.
@@ampersand. Yes. This trip was a lot of fun. I leave voiceover man to it... demarcation... if i start butting in, he's going to want to come along on the trips...
The 6 Saturday days were better spread out. Better than nothing, these out and back trains are out after morning peak use and back for evening services. It would be stood at Sheffield all day otherwise. Its a shame the Gainsborough Central stoppers haven't come back. Fast Worksop to Sheffield were ideal to cut overcrowding.
@@wrangerrob Yes, i see what you mean from the timings ie can run the diagram between the morning and evening peaks around Sheffield. And i agree that the Gainsborough Central to Sheffield would have been useful to keep on 🤷♂️
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@@JohnnyHooverTravels Yes they were. I remember those days . An hour or so in McDonalds a short walk from Gainsborough Central before catching a train back home.
Well Johnny. You may live near Exeter but the mushy peas on your chips give away that you're a Northerner.
@@Eurobazz guilty as charged m'lud 😀
I remember me and my family having a hastily organised holiday for the week in Grimsby and Cleethorpes. We originally wanted to go to Alsace-Lorraine in France, but the Covid-19 pandemic beginning in 2020 put paid to those desires. Instead, wanting to go somewhere we hadn't been before and was still in England, we went for Grimsby. Although there were some who asked why we chose Grimsby as a place to go on holiday, but genuinely, we had a great time and the fish and chips on the pier was superb and it was great to go somewhere that was different from home for a week
@@SiVlog1989 sometimes these weird hastily organised trips can be such fun. Pleased yours was a success!
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@JohnnyHooverTravels no problem 😊 speaking of once a day trains though, closer to home (for me), in 2013, by chance, I came across another once a day train, from Streatham Hill, via Tulse Hill to London Bridge. I recorded the bizarre situation where the train was announced on the PA at Streatham Hill and almost immediately afterwards, the PA switched to "stand away from the train at Platform 2, this train is not in use," and much to the bewilderment of one passenger, I ignored the message saying it wasn't in use, opened the door and climbed onboard. It used a rarely used stretch of track that links the Crystal Palace line with the Tulse Hill line
@@SiVlog1989 Nice to hear you ticked off a bit of line 👍
Enjoyed this a lot. Lots of information. On one of these trips, do you stay over? Or is it possible to get home? Thanks very much. Have a nice weekend.
@@clivelangham435 thanks for the kind words! I was using a North East rover ticket and for this day i was staying with my daughter in York for a couple of nights. I did a loop that day York, Doncaster, Clee, Sheffield, York.
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How many other one-a-day trains are there in the overall system, I wonder?
@@phronsiekeys Yes i did wonder that too. One for someone more geeky than me I suspect... stand up Mr Marshall and let us know!
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The name Worksop always conjures images of dim and dismal northern town. It's probably a lovely place, just the name!
No it's dim and dismal , although it is in the East Midlands !
@@garrymartin6474 the East Midlands is north of Watford!
@@terranceparsons5185 well i here from another comment that it has a great station pub, so let's not be too hasty!
Ah and that old argument about where the North starts. You know, some people think of the people that live in Inverness as southern softies...
Worksop? Don't bother its grim.
It is a dim and dismal town. I spent eight miserable years "living" there.
Papa's do way better fish and chips, so you missed out there.
@@iskra1234 ah well... i liked the idea of having my chips near the station. But i defer to your local knowledge 😀
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ironically (both) papa's at the other end of the line in Sheffield both closed recently 😑 Guessing good Fish and chips wasn't for Sheffield. To be fair they both were kind of in unideal locations.
did you travel on a weekday or weekend?
This service only runs on weekdays
@@GabrielsReviews thank you.
@@hhgttg69 yep. As per the replies. This was a weekday (Weds)
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Really shame the return journey is not a few hours later then could spend a few more hours at the seaside.
@@martinholland3938 Yes it is a very quick turnaround. I think you'd need a few trips to make it worthwhile to see all that Cleethorpes has to offer!
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Johnny: good afternoon from a reasonably sunny centre
Me: good afternoon from a dreuch Lisbon
@@transportlegendshorts ah it can't be beautiful weather every day in Lisbon!
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Johnny: good afternoon from a reasonably sunny centre
Me: good afternoon from a dreich Lisbon
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