Pick Up Freight

[sheff'd victoria]

A local resident of Brigg was telling me about the last time he saw a pick up freight train at Brigg, it was around 1983, he says it it was around this time that all pick up freight paths stopped.

Does anyone know the history of the last pick up freights and where they went to and from please ?

 

[RichmondCommu]

A local resident of Brigg was telling me about the last time he saw a pick up freight train at Brigg, it was around 1983, he says it it was around this time that all pick up freight paths stopped.

Does anyone know the history of the last pick up freights and where they went to and from please ?

I'm guessing here that the pick up freight finished when Speedlink finished. I'm away from home tonight but I have an excellent book at home which describes the various Speedlink services. I think the author is Paul Shannon.

 

[mailbyrail]

I well remember the trip to Brigg in the 1970s, even by then it was a remnant of earlier days.
It was D90, known as the Barnetby Pick Up running from Worksop. MO it ran to Barnetby with engineers wagons for the tip, the rest of the week it ran through to Grimsby West Marsh. By the mid 70s the only regular intermediate siding traffic was to Brigg with regular ferry vans of fridges and other white goods from Italy, Transfesa wagons from Spain with oranges and 16 ton mins for the station coal merchant. It was a busy goods yard with traffic in and out almost every day. In the summer the train also served the sugar refinery as van loads of sugar beet pulp came out, mostly for Scotland.

 

[PHILIPE]

When wagon load traffic was "lost" as unsuitable to BR (at the time) and Block trains were encouraged.

 

[Ploughman]

Used to be a pick up freight to Whitby.
NYMR made use of it a number of times for delivery / removal of stock by rail.

Similar story on the Manchester - Southport line.
Some stock was delivered to Steamport museum by rail.

York - Scarborough used to have an oil tanker service to the sidings at Scarborough near the turntable.