Freight trains paused alongside Canal Street
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Freight trains paused alongside Canal Street
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 18 Jun 2019
Whitehall Junction outside Leeds station is a notorious problem spot for timetable planners as slow moving freight trains have to cross several very busy passenger lines on the flat. So freights have to await their timetabled 'paths', like the southbound empty scrap wagons on the left. The Tarmac wagons on the right have already crossed Whitehall Junction northbound but then held for a long time on the slow line awaiting a slot on the two-track Aire Valley line. These are probably bound for one of Tarmac's limestone quarries beyond Skipton. Viewed from a footbridge Image
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