A New Year visit to a cold, grey & misty Tinsley Yard - 1089+092+100+109

The second series of 4 shots shows the arrival of the G.B.R.f, about 40 minutes later, permitting a walk along the green boundary fence, set about 35m back from the top of the bank to the right of the approaching GBRf, the distance meaning no view of the Yard can be had from up there anymore; sad really, for those of us who never did any harm. Passing London's muck on the left, ready to be loaded, by the dinky, yellow 'Volvo' bucket grabber, onto the back of a convoy of several trucks, which ply the route to a local dumping ground at Thrybergh, is GBRf class 66, 66775/F231, 'HMS Argyll' on the 4E53, from Felixstowe North(GBRf). It is heading along down-grade to the Tinsley Intermodal Terminal which is operated successfully now with regular weekday workings of both Freightliner and GBRf, by the 'Newell & Wright Container Company'. 'HMS Argyll' snakes its long container train at the bottom of the bank near where the early morning GBRf stone train comes along to run-around it Bardon stone wagons, ready for the off back south to the quarry, using both the lines to the left of the palisade fence. A set of trap points on the left of centre next to the 'STOP' board is for the use of the departing DBS Spoil Train loco, this is where it stops awaiting authority to move up into the Tinsley Sorting Sidings in the background, the sidings of course a shadow of their former glory. An old Yard 2-colour light signal can be seen to the right of the lamp standard in front of the yellow container; its unlikely that this signal is in use any more.. At upper right, the set is passing down towards the Wood Lane over-bridge where I am stood, suitably covered in warm clothing and there had been a bit of hanging about to do, hence the earlier 40 minute walk whilst waiting for this final set to come into the Yard. Looks like its going to be continually difficult to keep the space here in a tidy fashion with dirt spilling out all over the show, some signs are already showing of 'wear and tear'. What an operation all this is placing the material in trucks at the excavation site, off-loading from trucks at the Wembley Freight Centre, or other rail-heads, into the large box-wagons in the south, travelling up from the south to here, then off-loading the material onto the spoil-pad, then scooping this up into another set of trucks which then convey the material to its final resting place where it has to be tipped into the site taking all this London waste. By comparison, the quiet and easy approach of the liner train, its servicing of container traffic by large grabbers and their placement onto flat-bed trucks for delivery in the wider area, all appears so easy by comparison. At lower left, one of the GBRf crew is about the place and can be seen here adjusting the coupling between the back of the loco and the 1st wagon; turning of the coupling appeared to be going on, not sure whether this was loosening or tightening, 66775 will soon halt alongside the container pad for off-loading the container brought in by ship and then decouple and run-around, ready to take another set back to Felixstowe, then for shipment abroad. 'HMS Argyll', F231, is the longest-serving, Type 23 Frigate in the Royal Navy', more details here-
www.royalnavy.mod.uk/our-organisation/the-fighting-arms/s...
The second 'STOP' board at this side of 66775, is the limit for the movements of the spoil train, from this point, it has to decouple and also run-around on the lines 66775 is about to use, the DBS loco, today it was 66093, then runs up into the Yard and finally comes back onto the other end of the empty JNA wagons, ready for the off back south later that afternoon. Finally, at lower right, yet another view over the old Tinsley Yard Reception Sidings area, now totally cleared and in use for the 'Newell & Wright Container Terminal'; the grey 'Maersk' truck on the right is passing the location of the old Tinsley Yard signal box, finally destroyed by arson in late 2010...The 'Mercure Hotel is atop the bank in the distance and at right, a car supermarket, on the site of the old Tinsley Diesel Depot. GBRf 66775/F231, 'HMS Argyll', is terminating here on the 4E53, Felixstowe North(GBRf) to Tinsley Intermodal Terminal and after a few hours and once the loco has run-around, the set will set off back on the 4L53, Tinsley Intermodal Terminal to Felixstowe North(GBRf) working, on time at 16:14, arriving back at the east coast port in Essex at 23:25, 15 minutes late. In the mist in the background, is the Sheffield Parkway, devoid of traffic at this point and another of Tinsley's old signal posts survives, left in-situ during the redevelopment of the area in the last year or so, the post, alongside the track and without its head now, can be seen to the left of the high stack of containers, with a blue one at the base...

Taken on: January 25, 2022

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Tinsley Yard

D.B.S.

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Wembley European Freight Operations Centre to Tinsley Yard S.S.

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Tinsley Yard S.S. to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre

JRA & JNA Wagons

Monster Box Wagons

Freightliner

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Johnson Stevens Agencies

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Felixstowe North(FLT) to Tinsley Intermodal Terminal

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Tinsley Intermodal Terminal to Felixstowe North (FLT)

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HMS Argyll

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Felixstowe North(GBRf) to Tinsley Intermodal Terminal

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Tinsley Intermodal Terminal to Felixstowe North(GBRf)

Shepcote Lane

Wood Lane

Tinsley Control Tower

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Sheffield District Railway

Newell & Wright Container Terminal

Outokumpu Steel

Marks & Spencer

Tinsley Park Colliery

Broughton Lane

Amey PLC Ltd.

Tinsley Intermodal Terminal

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London Spoil Pad

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