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Alas all we speak about now has gone, as a lot of the big customers have been made into Shopping Centres or nature reserves, where once we shunted trains worked trains for these locations.
All you see on a journey to Donny from Leeds is industrial deriliction, where at one time we had customers who had 5 or 6 trains a day from Cardiff Rod Mill,(Cobra at Wakefield) or 20 carflats from Southampton with Transit Vans on them for unloading.
( Wakefield Westgate)and thriving pit yards where 3 or 4 MGRS would load for the power Stations per day..
At the end of the miners strike I had 20 pits on my route card. Now these pits are flattened
and When go go past them I remember the times we have worked in and out of them.
(South Kirby/Grimethorpe/Wooley/Manvers Main.) the list goes on.
Gas tanks from Humber Oil to Stanlow Gas, at Ellesmere Port.( 7years)
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