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History
By 1920 extensive railway sidings had been developed on the railway line eastsoutheast of Healey, named Healey Mill Sidings. In the 1960s, as part of a modernisation plan, the sidings were re-designed for more efficient wagon load handling.
Construction included cutting a new channel over 1,000 yards long for the River Calder south of the original, levelling of the site with over 1 million cubic yards of infill, the re-construction and extension of a road bridge at the east end of the site near Horbury Bridge, the construction of three railway bridges over the River Calder, and diversion of gas and electricity mains.
The new yard was built as a hump shunting (gravity) yard capable of handling 4,000 wagons a day. The reception sidings were built west of the River Calder, the main yard was built on the extended site of the former sidings. The main control tower was located south of the main line and the Calder Vale Dye Works near to the river.The yard opened in 1963 at a cost of £3.5 million. The diesel motive power depot at Healey Mills (Healey Mills Diesel Depot or Healey Mills TMD) opened in 1967.
After the marshalling yard closed in 1987, the site was used for storage of trains and locomotives. After the privatisation of British Rail the site was operated by EWS; an assessment was made of a future requirement of six long doubled ended sidings and further short single ended sidings.
After 2010 the site's use was limited to crew changes; the driver depot at Healey Mills closed in 2012, being relocated to portacabins at Wakefield Kirkgate station after 4 February 2012.
Explore & Cildhood Memories;
This is certainly not a new one for me, having spent a lot of my childhood in Ossett i was down at this rail yard clambering about as much as i could. I was really quite shocked when i arrived yesterday to find that the place had been emptied!! When i used to go down there were hundreds of carriages and loads of diesel loco's. I remember many a sunny afternoon pretending to drive this bad boys around... I also remember a lot of nettles.
Anyway, whilst in the area we decided to nip down for a mooch about and although it wasnt as good as it used to be, i had a good time reliving my childhood
If you got this far, thanks for looking
History
By 1920 extensive railway sidings had been developed on the railway line eastsoutheast of Healey, named Healey Mill Sidings. In the 1960s, as part of a modernisation plan, the sidings were re-designed for more efficient wagon load handling.
Construction included cutting a new channel over 1,000 yards long for the River Calder south of the original, levelling of the site with over 1 million cubic yards of infill, the re-construction and extension of a road bridge at the east end of the site near Horbury Bridge, the construction of three railway bridges over the River Calder, and diversion of gas and electricity mains.
The new yard was built as a hump shunting (gravity) yard capable of handling 4,000 wagons a day. The reception sidings were built west of the River Calder, the main yard was built on the extended site of the former sidings. The main control tower was located south of the main line and the Calder Vale Dye Works near to the river.The yard opened in 1963 at a cost of £3.5 million. The diesel motive power depot at Healey Mills (Healey Mills Diesel Depot or Healey Mills TMD) opened in 1967.
After the marshalling yard closed in 1987, the site was used for storage of trains and locomotives. After the privatisation of British Rail the site was operated by EWS; an assessment was made of a future requirement of six long doubled ended sidings and further short single ended sidings.
After 2010 the site's use was limited to crew changes; the driver depot at Healey Mills closed in 2012, being relocated to portacabins at Wakefield Kirkgate station after 4 February 2012.
Explore & Cildhood Memories;
This is certainly not a new one for me, having spent a lot of my childhood in Ossett i was down at this rail yard clambering about as much as i could. I was really quite shocked when i arrived yesterday to find that the place had been emptied!! When i used to go down there were hundreds of carriages and loads of diesel loco's. I remember many a sunny afternoon pretending to drive this bad boys around... I also remember a lot of nettles.
Anyway, whilst in the area we decided to nip down for a mooch about and although it wasnt as good as it used to be, i had a good time reliving my childhood
If you got this far, thanks for looking
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