Looking south-east from Wood Lane bridge the remains of the

once-mighty Tinsley yard are seen. Opened in 1965 by Sir Richard Beeching it was heralded as the future of freight on the railways being designated as a 'network yard' but in truth, it was already redundant as the rail freight that it was designed for was in terminal decline. In this scene the site of the former signal box can be seen once located on the slab of concrete to the far right of the image. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by arsonists in 2010 a few months after it was finally closed. The steps rising up the bank to the far right of the image led up to the former Tinsley depot (TI from 1973) that was located where the warehouse is now constructed. Like the marshalling yard, the depot had a ridiculously short working life opening in 1965 and closing in 1998. In its final year of operation it was owned by EWS and used for the storage of redundant and withdrawn diesels.