With the rain beginning to fall I turned the camera

south from Bescot Stadium's station footbridge towards the yard. It is clear that this northern end of the yard does not see much use now with just some stored wagons in view. Further south there are huge amounts of stone and ballast where Network Rail operate their infrastructure work that spans out all over the network. The derelict land and rails to the far right of this photograph are where West Midlands Trains want to build their new electric maintenance depot following the rejection of Network Rail's sleeper manufacturing plans at the end of 2019.