Small train yard near Stoke-on-Trent

[Jamesrob637]

Apparently there is a small train yard just off the B5045 Shelton New Road in Stoke on Trent. An ex-FGW MK3 can be seen from this Google Street View image:

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Does anybody know the purpose or history of this yard?

 

[185]

I seem to remember the 158s from the Salisbury crash were there last year.

 

[Ash Bridge]

I think the location is Cockshute, there’s an earlier thread relating to this….

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjH0JfYsbSDAxXzWUEAHUJ0B8EQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.railforums.co.uk%2Fthreads%2Fonetime-2-epb-in-a-siding-north-of-stoke-on-trent-today.243099%2F&usg=AOvVaw0MfRae-89ApFc8qWBtCKfN&opi=89978449

 

[Towers]

Any ideas re. the HST trailer?

 

[43096]

Any ideas re. the HST trailer?

42353 I believe.

 

[Towers]

42353 I believe.

Ah, a prototype! Any suggestion of its future?

 

[Defiance149]

Its Cockshute Sidings, used as overflow/storage by haulier Reid Freight Services. 42353 is stored there on behalf of Northumbria Rail.

 

[Chorley Cake]

Apparently there is a small train yard just off the B5045 Shelton New Road in Stoke on Trent. An ex-FGW MK3 can be seen from this Google Street View image:

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Does anybody know the purpose or history of this yard?

Used to be a busy freight stabling point at Cockshute years ago. Try Googling images of it in the 70s and 80s for 08,20,24,25,40,47.

 

[45076]

Is that battered LNER power car still there? 43300 wasn't it?

 

[Jamesrob637]

Used to be a busy freight stabling point at Cockshute years ago. Try Googling images of it in the 70s and 80s for 08,20,24,25,40,47.

A load of early electrics were stabled there in the mid-80s too.

 

[fgwrich]

Ah, a prototype! Any suggestion of its future?

Awaiting it's turn in a restoration queue.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I passed the location weekly, 2005-2008, as my working week was split between London and Manchester. I recall seeing a few dented TEA bogie tankers there, in situ for ages.

Used to be a busy freight stabling point at Cockshute years ago. Try Googling images of it in the 70s and 80s for 08,20,24,25,40,47.

 

[Towers]

Awaiting it's turn in a restoration queue.

Ah, good!

 

[sprinterguy]

Is that battered LNER power car still there? 43300 wasn't it?

It never was, as far as I'm aware: 43300 was stored at Reid Freight Services' main yard at Longton, where I think it still remains.

 

[45076]

It never was, as far as I'm aware: 43300 was stored at Reid Freight Services' main yard at Longton, where I think it still remains.

oh yes, of course that's down the line towards Crewe on the right hand side isn't it.
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[jfollows]

A load of early electrics were stabled there in the mid-80s too.

My memory is that it was used for overnight EMU stabling as well, rather than running empty EMUs to Stoke for early morning services.

 

[sprinterguy]

oh yes, of course that's down the line towards Crewe on the right hand side isn't it.
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You might be thinking of Longport, the rail-connected EMD facility.

Reid Freight Services' Longton yard is a non-rail connected site on the east side of Stoke, some distance to the north of the Stoke - Derby line.

 

[Baxenden Bank]

You might be thinking of Longport, the rail-connected EMD facility.

Reid Freight Services' Longton yard is a non-rail connected site on the east side of Stoke, some distance to the north of the Stoke - Derby line.

indeed.
Drop the smart bomb just here:

52°59'23.6"N 2°06'39.5"W​

== Doublepost prevention - post automatically merged: 4 Jan 2024 ==

The 'small train yard' is here:

53°00'49.6"N 2°11'30.7"W​

The former 'shed' is on the other side of the main line, here:

53°00'48.6"N 2°11'36.0"W​

The Imerys China clay siding is a bit south of that, here:

53°00'46.8"N 2°11'39.1"W​

And finally, Longport EMD works is here:

53°02'37.3"N 2°13'02.5"W​

 

[iknowyeah]

Just searched and found this. I see this yard a lot, so it's just a storage until restoration or scrap? Not been as much as I have been recently but there's an old tube carriage and a couple of other heritage ones that I can't get a decent look at. What will happen to all these?

 

[sprinterguy]

The tube carriage is vehicle 229 from ex-Island Line class 483009. The other vehicle of the unit is preserved at the East Somerset Railway, though I'm unsure what the future holds for this one.

There are also a pair of class 416 2-EPB cars in blue livery, numbers 65379 and 65382, ex de-icing unit 930206. They are spares donors for the group that owns class 207 1305 at the Bluebell Railway, from information in this previous thread:

Onetime 2-EPB in a siding north of Stoke-on-Trent today

Can someone please enlighten what the (apparently) old Southern electric unit, in overall blue, is, in a siding north of Stoke-on-Trent, along with a couple of current diesels.

www.railforums.co.uk

I note that a class 319 unit has appeared there recently, I haven't quite been able to see which one. Possibly 319214, one of the recently withdrawn ex-LNWR units?

 

[DarloRich]

I note that a class 319 unit has appeared there recently, I haven't quite been able to see which one.

I noticed that the other day. Separated into individual coaches. There seems to be piles of waste wood between them!

 

[Defiance149]

The tube carriage is vehicle 229 from ex-Island Line class 483009. The other vehicle of the unit is preserved at the East Somerset Railway, though I'm unsure what the future holds for this one.

129 left Cranmore well over a year ago, its now an airbnb marketed as ‘Mind the Gap’, located at Apple Mount Retreat, Thorpe Morirux, Lavenham, Suffolk
https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/101..._impression_id=p3_1708512747_cmxTTXFfixsDWckt

 

[ExRes]

I noticed that the other day. Separated into individual coaches. There seems to be piles of waste wood between them!

Maybe it's being converted to a wood burner

 

[DarloRich]

Maybe it's being converted to a wood burner

Quad power (3rd rail, ohle, diesel, steam!)

 

[Lewisham2221]

There is now what I think is one of the removed 458 carriages here

 

[sprinterguy]

There is now what I think is one of the removed 458 carriages here

Yeah it's vehicle 74424, removed from set 458522. Currently adjacent to mark 3 sleeper 10591, which was recently removed from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for scrap.

 

[collosus]

The 319 unit near stoke on Trent is 214

 

[Jamesrob637]

The 319 unit near stoke on Trent is 214

Scrapped now, I believe.

 

[collosus]

Yeah it’s on the Wikipedia page does anyone also know where 220 is stored at

 

[Jamesrob637]

There are now loads of SWR coaches there! Anybody know why? Quite a way from SWR territory.