Shunting oil tanks at Skipton
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Shunting oil tanks at Skipton
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 28 Mar 1988
There used to be a siding just east of the station, roughly where Morrisons supermarket now is, used for oil deliveries. Here in 1988 is a rake of such tanks being shunted by the station pilot 08707. Note that platform 4 in the foreground was at that time out of use by passenger trains. The semaphore signals in this photo are also seen in Neil Clifton's 1983 view Image but were replaced, along with the signal box in the distance, in the 1990s electrification.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.958146
Longitude
-2.025262
