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Originally Posted by LNER
I have posted a photogragh in the gallery of 47380 pulling out of Follingsby Freightliner Yard on 3rd April 1987. It was a cold night and I remember there was only 3 photographers on site to capture the event. The yard did not close for lack of work, they wanted the site for opencasting of coal, which is now finished. An industrial site now stands on the land.
Were you there?
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I have worked at the FL depot at Stourton, Leeds many hours shunting the FL Trains that came in there.
The FL Depot had 3 roads with cranes at either end.
This was one of HM's good and bad jobs.
The afternoon shift signed on at 1600hrs Mon-Fri till 2359 hrs.
You were normally going home at 2030hrs.
The bad bit was the night FL shunt job which started at
23:59hrs till 07:59hrs and you went home in a " Day."
We shunted with a 08 which was kept on the pit road at the Leeds end of the yard.
This job was usually a Leeds Holbeck Job, but when 55A shut it came to HM.
A nice job in the summer but very cold in the winter months.