Earlier this week I watched a video on YouTube about railways in the Grimsby area. Many lines served the fish docks. All are closed, mainly because road transport took the traffic away. Now the road transport has gone as the trawler fleet has been decommissioned as a result of government and EU fishing policies.
My memory of the railway fish traffic is that of a train of empty fish vans being returned to Grimsby by way of Chesterfield and the 'Old Line' towards Barrow Hill. The van doors were left open for the return journey. The stench lasted for minutes after the train had gone.
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