Inspiration: a local goods train serves the Sheffield railway system

Great inspirational video in which we can follow a local goods train in Sheffield in the 1960s, shunting various sidings and using diesel as well as steam power. Unfortunately this video is also documenting the beginning of the end of small goods depots and the complicated shunting work we love so much on our model railways.

And while we are already in the Sheffield area, why not watch again (and again) Michael Palin's Confessions of a Train Spotter: