goods yard

After a fruitless struggle to get aboard a North-Western train at Chalk Farm--the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there PLOUGHED through shrieking people, and a dozen stalwart men fought to keep the crowd from crushing the driver against his furnace--my brother emerged upon the Chalk Farm road, dodged across through a hurrying swarm of vehicles, and had the luck to be foremost in the sack of a cycle shop.

Bert was a Southerner; he had never been north of the Midland counties, and the multitude of factories and chimneys--the latter for the most part obsolete and smokeless now, superseded by huge electric generating stations that consumed their own reek--old railway viaducts, mono-rail net-works and goods yards, and the vast areas of dingy homes and narrow streets, spreading aimlessly, struck him as though Camberwell and Rotherhithe had run to seed.

It is hoped that the upgrades will allow for the future development of a multi-storey car park on the Forth Goods Yard, as well as new homes and offices.

Liam Buckley, real estate partner in Fieldfisher's Manchester office, led the acquisition of 222,000 sq ft of offices, located at the Manchester Goods Yard, part of Allied London's St John's development.

Six spectacular operational layouts will be on show in a variety of gauges, including ones depicting Hebden Bridge station, its goods yard and approaches.

The agreement, to manage the neighbouring seven-acre Middlesbrough Goods Yard, comes as the family-run Teesside firm has completed work on its PS12.5m expansion plans.

Railway officials provided a short goods train hauled by a steam engine to carry the chains to the Goods Yard where they were loaded onto a truck for the journey to the workshop.

Vera started at the Goods Yard in Warwick Road in 1947, gaining promotion as PA to Harold Clarke, then Head of Goods Received, retiring in 1983.

It has been installed at Kings Cross Central, the redeveloped former goods yard in London.

The festival will be held on June 12 at the former Western Welsh bus depot in Broad Street, Barry, and at the festival site on the former Barry Railway Goods Yard in Hood Road.

The plan is for increased parking on the old goods yard next to platform two.