Freight activity at Derby.

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We are still in the late 1980s with these views of some of the freight activity observed during a short stay at Derby station. 

Rather a short train for two locos.

Class 56 on a coal train.

Light engine activity. Class 20s as they usually appeared... in twos.



Two views of a ballast train with what appears to be a red class 47.

An empty steel train goes North.



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