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Small train yard near Stoke-on-Trent

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I seem to remember the 158s from the Salisbury crash were there last year.
 
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Its Cockshute Sidings, used as overflow/storage by haulier Reid Freight Services. 42353 is stored there on behalf of Northumbria Rail.
 
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Jamesrob637 said:
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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53°01'08.0"N 2°12'05.0"W · 53.018889, -2.201389

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Does anybody know the purpose or history of this yard?
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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.
 
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45076 said:
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.
 
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sprinterguy said:
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.
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indeed.
Drop the smart bomb just here:

52°59'23.6"N 2°06'39.5"W​


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​

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