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History
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. 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.