Bescot Yard
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Bescot Yard is a railway yard in Bescot, a suburb of Walsall in the West Midlands, operated by DB Cargo UK. The yard is the major freight yard of the region, handling all of the rail freight movements
DB Schenker Class 66, next to Network Rail infrastructure vehicles, at Bescot in June 2005
British Railways Class 20 No.s 20167 and 20162 take the line to Walsall, Hednesford and Rugeley from Bescot with a short train of empty coal wagons, November 1982
Bescot's former hump shunting control offices ably illustrate the run-down state of the yard in September 2008
Walsall railway station
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Walsall railway station serves the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. It is managed by West Midlands Trains, which also operates all services that stop here under the West Midlands Railwa
Bescot Yard
…the rail freight movements and most of the railfreight traffic around the West Midlands. Bescot is on the Chase Line between Birmingham New Street and Walsall, part of the former Grand Junction Railway, opened in 1837. It was built to handle the coal and industrial traffic associated with the West Midlands…
Walsall station in January 2019.
A view from platform 1 looking north towards the tunnel under the Saddlers Centre, in March 2007
A Class 304 electric multiple unit at Walsall, in 1979
A Class 730 being tested at Walsall, on 19 March 2021