MarkWi72
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Does anyone from the Black Country or wider West Midlands area recall the Dudley Freightliner Terminal?Did anyone work there? It closed in September 1986. It sat adjacent the Stourbridge - Walsall freight only line (this closed in 1991).
As a youngster, I recall the Dudley-Glasgow freightliner, 4S50. I grew up near to Dudley Port and remember the bow like route it took, in order to go North. It would head to Bescot , via the South Staffs Freight line, usually hauled by a 45 or 47. It would then get an electric, or pair of (usually 86/87 ), at Bescot. Then it would travel along the Grand Junction line to Perry Barr, head to the Soho Triangle and head north along the Stour Valley, crossing the low level line, which it had originally traveled along at Dudley Port.
I am certain that was the only train, per day, at the end of the Terminal's working life. It was one of very few freight workings along the Stour Valley line in the 1980s - the other two I recall was 6F57 BOC (Class 40/double headed 25s) and the Oil tankers from the Albion Oil Depot near Oldbury to Stanlow/Stanlow to Albion. I forget where the BOC tanks were going to/from.
As a youngster, I recall the Dudley-Glasgow freightliner, 4S50. I grew up near to Dudley Port and remember the bow like route it took, in order to go North. It would head to Bescot , via the South Staffs Freight line, usually hauled by a 45 or 47. It would then get an electric, or pair of (usually 86/87 ), at Bescot. Then it would travel along the Grand Junction line to Perry Barr, head to the Soho Triangle and head north along the Stour Valley, crossing the low level line, which it had originally traveled along at Dudley Port.
I am certain that was the only train, per day, at the end of the Terminal's working life. It was one of very few freight workings along the Stour Valley line in the 1980s - the other two I recall was 6F57 BOC (Class 40/double headed 25s) and the Oil tankers from the Albion Oil Depot near Oldbury to Stanlow/Stanlow to Albion. I forget where the BOC tanks were going to/from.