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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.