History edit
Whitemoor Yard was built on flat fenland at the meeting point of railway lines connecting East Anglia and East London with the coalfields of the East Midlands and Yorkshire.[1] The LNER opened a new marshalling yard on the site in March 1929. It had 43 sorting sidings and was capable of handling 4,000 wagons a day. However, the opening of the down yard increased this to 8,000 wagons per day.[2]
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References edit
- ^ Simmons, Jack; Biddle, Gordon, eds. (2003). The Oxford companion to British railway history from 1603 to the 1990s. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 315. ISBN 0198662386.
- ^ Booth, Chris (March 2023). "Exploring Peterborough to Norwich". Today's Railways. No. 253. Sheffield: Platform 5. p. 42. ISSN 1475-9713.
Sources edit
- Rhodes, Michael (1988). The Illustrated History of British Marshalling Yards. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0-86093-367-9.