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Originally Posted by 21Aman
One of the main reasons for the demise of Wath Yard was the opening of Tinsley Yard which replaced quite a few yards in the South Yorkshire Area it was also electrified to accommodate a lot of the coal traffic for the Manchester via Woodhead Route, of course Tinsley went the same way as Wath,must have been one of the most expensive Marshalling "White Elephants" ever, thanks to Dr Beeching. When Tinsley opened Saltley men had 5 jobs a day in/out of there. However the main decline of both yards was Mrs Thatchers plan to see off the NUM by shutting all the pits,so we could import the only mineral we had, from all over the world !
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The week before the Miners Strike started, I was on a MGR job which entailed 2 Trips with etys to Wath and load back over the S and K.
As we came into Wath Yard we could see the fires of the Cortonwood Pit Picket Line.
The closing of Cortonwood was the start that ignited the long stuuggle to come.
When history is written Maggie T will get the blame for wrecking this countries energy supplies.
The date of this was March 1984.