Following the end of EWS's express freight services to Aberdeen the terminal at Tasker Street, Walsall has seen no traffic apart from the cement trains dealt with at the adjacent Midland Yard.
Tasker Street could handle many types of freight and to see it not used seems a waste of a valuable facility. In the past it was a busy yard.
The yards can only be accessed via Walsall Station as the Connection with Pleck Junction was lost with the closure of Walsall Yard Shunt Frame in 1983.
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The desolation..... flats have now been built on the old Tasker St proper (where the shunters cabin and TOPS were situated). Also long gone are the carriage sidings, P Way yard (Long St),Gas Works, and the busy NCL depot which had around 12 roads within a huge goods shed, the office buildings backed onto Bradford Square....
ps see Steve Jones website (at base of page) for a great view of the Tasker St area.
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