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I was thinking Healey Mills too, but did Manchester Victoria used to have freight train drivers in the BR Era, and would they have had a driver change at Manchester Victoria, taking over from Healey Mills drivers?

Having looked on Flickr at photos of the vast amount of freight trains that once travelled the Calder Valley route in the BR Era from the mid eighties up until the end of BR, which traincrew depots would of driven the trains when travelling along the Calder Valley line, and would they have had...

Seems a shame they are hardly any MGR HAA's around anymore, and it is indeed a good idea to try and preserve the last remaining ones. Does anyone know what happened to the HEA wagons that used to carry domestic house coal to depots around the country in the 1980's?