The Remains Of Tinsley Traction Depot and Yard July 2017 

I took a lot of the lines up as a young boy in my first job working for a local scrap firm the place was absolutely massive in it's day

I remember going to a Depot open day in the 1980s. The place was a hive of activity,locos everywhere. It is so sad the way the railways have declined in this country.

I went on a school trip from Devon to Tinsley depot around 1985. We walked down a path by a golf course from Darnal station to get there. I still have lots of photos. Lots of locos there. Thanks for sharing.

I've just found your video what a huge place it is it goes on for miles nature has taken over it now sadly must have been a great place when it was open surprise some of the rails are still in place

So sad 😞 I had many a good day watching master and slave shunters pushing lines of wagons over the hum......👍 I even saw the odd class 76 Tommy’s come into the yard 😃 We’ve only too look at our roads after the demise of the railways......😩 Thanks for the video Stevie A 👍

Blimey Nature has reclaimed that place! I always thought the yard control tower was still their but obviously not! Should never have gone, you have EWS to thank for that.More track left down than I thought there would be.Good video and brings back memories of a happier time prior to 1998.

Sad to see it like this. Remember going to the shed on an organised visit when it was fully working - amazing place. Locos everywhere!

Barbara Castle was sacked from being Transport Minister when she mooted a cost benefit survey for HGVs. European freight transport is locked into road haulage because it is payed for by the taxpayer and it's high cost can be masked. Ernest Marples said once he needed millions of motorists to subsidise heavy lorries which grind roads into dust like the M6. No monopolist wants to pay their true costs. They palm them off onto us. The logistics is lazy but damaging. We pay in many ways.

Tinsley is now a very busy place with a thriving container terminal, and aggregates and steel traffic well represented.

After watching the 1966 video talking about how 'modern' the yard was, this is super interesting.

What a place that was. Governments and this country makes me feel sick!

Last time I was there was in 1978, at your video time between 00.17- 00.55, If I remember correctly The diesel depot was on the right hand side where it now looks as though its been cleared & the shunting yard was on the opposite side of the bridge looking towards the newly built units, last time I looked down here was heaving with wagons & allways 2 x Class 13 shunter units, That place is a shadow of its former self along with all other diesel depots over the country, now sadly disappeared.

It seems that railfreight in this country plays a minor role these days, it's all about passenger services and turning closed or seldom used lines into tram and light rail systems. Mean while the loss of freight depots means more HGV's on our already over crowded road network.

How sad, when I was a Shunter at Stoke Gifford now “ Bristol Parkway” every night around 03.00 in freezing Winter conditions, in would come a mixed goods from Tinsley.

thank you for this video!

Great video. Strange why have the old floodlights been taken down and just left there?

Interesting to see and was a good place for viewing and a lot happening in the good old days.

So sad to see this have a book on the woodhead railway between Sheffield and Manchester it shows pictures of tinsley yard and the electrification extended to tinsley at 1,500 volts DC and pictures of the em1's here too guess they call it progress I call it butchering thanks ews shortsightedness too much heavy traffic on roads now

Entropy in action! See how nature soon takes it all back.

Fucking Sacrilege !!! Enough said, very sad .

Such a shame to see the once mighty Tinsley like this , but how about donating the lengths of rail to a preservation society and building affordable housing on the hundreds of acres of ex yard ?

This is just total vandalism. How can this possibly be progress shutting down these yards and adding yet more lorries to the road And all you hear about these days is environmental issues.

Is it just me that finds this so desolate and depressing? I remember Tinsley yard and Tinsley depot.......... Such a shame :(

A lot of this has happened ..they call it progress ??? bye in the future Railways will make a come back and these places will be needed agin

Really good capture but in 2017, why is video quality so poor?

Sad sight