Colwick_Marshalling_Yard_geograph-2986296-by-Ben-Brooksbank(1)
Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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The western part of Colwick marshalling yard 1956
Ben Brooksbank
Colwick Yard Complex. View [probably] WNW, to the western part of the vast ex-LNER Colwick Yards and towards Gedling etc. on the Nottingham Avoiding Line. The signalbox is [probably] Locomotive Junction, the great Locomotive Depot, with an allocation of over 200 engines is off to the left. [It was a very difficult complex to access from public roads. My car is in the foreground, and how I got up so high is a mystery to me. Better elucidation by someone else would be welcome]. Fifty years ago, this was a very major railway centre, dealing with an immense freight traffic, especially coal, but all has long since gone in the modern age.
Colwick_Marshalling_Yard_geograph-2986296-by-Ben-Brooksbank(1)
Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Text description on Wikimedia Commons is:
The western part of Colwick marshalling yard 1956
Ben Brooksbank
Colwick Yard Complex. View [probably] WNW, to the western part of the vast ex-LNER Colwick Yards and towards Gedling etc. on the Nottingham Avoiding Line. The signalbox is [probably] Locomotive Junction, the great Locomotive Depot, with an allocation of over 200 engines is off to the left. [It was a very difficult complex to access from public roads. My car is in the foreground, and how I got up so high is a mystery to me. Better elucidation by someone else would be welcome]. Fifty years ago, this was a very major railway centre, dealing with an immense freight traffic, especially coal, but all has long since gone in the modern age.