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This is an interesting thread, well worth carrying on, because with the ending of "Goods trains" as we knew them and no more loose coupled trains, no more brakevan trains, the kind of Goods trains that were at one time, part of everyday life, no more can you hear the "clangning of buffers in a yard, no more can you see Hump shunting, all that has gone now, just memories, unless you can find a heritage railway that runs trains with brakevans of course.
But in general it has gone, some of the yards that I worked in to are no longer there, and if they are, then they are derelict and overgrown, or have supermarkets or car parks built on them. I know of one in particular that you can now walk round a "superstore" and do your shopping on the floor that used to hold lines of wagons and be a very busy Goods Yard !!
Come on chaps, lets talk a bit more about this very interesting subject, some of you must know of yards that were once busy locations and now are simply no more !
On the subject of "superstores" though, did you know that Asda have more stores on former railway land than Tesco,having said that, Tesco do have a store and car park on part of the old Wolverton works.
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