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Originally Posted by HM181
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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Yes mate,it is a depressing sight, but at least we can remember, and look back.
Its funny you know, but with the memories we have AND this forum, those times will never be forgotten will they.
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