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  • From the archive: Inside Healey Mills marshalling yard in 1963

    From the archive: Inside Healey Mills marshalling yard in 1963

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    In September 1963, The Railway Magazine took a detailed look at Healey Mills, the new marshalling yard four miles west of Wakefield on the Calder Valley route to Manchester. The article described a yard capable of handling 4,000 wagons a day, with 120 sidings totalling 57 miles of track. HEALEY MILLS, four miles west of…

  • DB Cargo sells all but one of its Class 60s to ESH Rail Services

    DB Cargo sells all but one of its Class 60s to ESH Rail Services

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    A NEW name in rail haulage, Enviro Skip Hire Rail Services, has bought all but one of DB Cargo’s remaining 52 Class 60s, and the first to be resurrected for its new owner by DBC, 60063, has been released. Now sporting a two-tone grey livery, just like the old BR Trainload Freight colour scheme, and…


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