PETERBOROUGH BR

Westwood Yard BR

Class 08 in Westwood Yard in the late 1970's

The class 08 above is shunting wagons over a small hump into a fan of sidings in Westwood yard. This part of the yard was next to the roundabout which you use now to get to B&Q and PC World. A lot of what sidings at New England is now a dual carriageway and shops.

Only part of Westwood yard was left in 1970's and even lest today(2015).

Were the dual carriage way that runs from the station to New England is now, was rows of sidings full of wagons. The Yard went right back to the houses. How did any one get a goods night rest with all shunting going on all though the night?

Shunting of wagons went on day and night in the 1950s when I was young and could be herd all over Peterborough with more freight running at night than during the day.

By the late 1970's just a few wagons needed shunting, and today its is just the removing of defective wagons or putting new or repaired wagons back into the sets of wagons.

This class 08 139 has been given a name of "IVOR"

Four steel mineral wagons in Westwood Yard being hump shunted. Three 16ton and one 20T.

Next part at Peterborough is Walton in BR days