File:Healey mills marshalling yard - geograph.org.uk - 1138895.jpg
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English: Healey mills marshalling yard Today this once busy rail location is a shadow of its former self. Miles of empty sidings stretch out in what was Europe's largest marshalling yard.
Only two of the yards floodlights remain switched on. No locomotives are allocated or maintained at the depot these days. I recall visiting here in the 1980s, trains would leave and depart the yard every few minutes. The shunters were always busy, pottering about the yard sorting the wagons for forward movement day and night. Tonight there would be very little activity in comparison. A goods train was held at signals on the yard avoiding line for what seemed like an age. Two goods trains slowly snaked there way into the yard, another stopped for a crew change at the main control tower. It was sad to see the place so quiet. At one time the sound of clanking buffers, the squeal of wheels, and diesels ticking over on shed would have been heard. The long rows of goods wagons have now been replaced by condemned locomotives awaiting there final journey, a towed trip working to the scrap yard and cutters torch. |
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