Video

Breathtaking, I'm homesick....

Hi, My name's Jake and I'm an editor at a media company called Beeston Media. We're interested in using your drone footage in a short film with Wakefield council we're making on housing. Please could you reply back to my comment so I can provide you with more details?

Why that thing, rotating, on the building? Like on boats.

Europe is heaven on Earth. Used to be...

Which spot is that on the island in the last picture?

Nice one! Which part of is this area ?

Brilliant photography, good music. Thanks for putting this on, I really enjoyed it.

Nice views

You have done well here, lovely

Used to live in Sandal late 70's, it sure has changed a lot, appreciate the video!

You have done well with this, brilliant

Another yard destroyed by lazy drivers

I hated healey mills,

Thanks for the wonderful memories. My late father used to work at Healy Mills in the 70s and 80s working shifts. I remember fondly (before health and safety) he used to take me occasionally on the Friday afternoon shift when it was very quiet and I could climb into the locos as a 10 year old in the service shed and enjoy myself. Damn I miss my dad 😢

The sheer scale of the housing density is hard to believe.

I used to live off Beech cresent, on Willow gardens in the `90`s, I used to collect the money for the local milkman on a friday afternoon and monday afternoons after school. My dad had a window cleaning round that covered all of this area as well. I also lived on park view for a little while.

The state the rest of the country is in ,very sad

I hope all that old disused track won't be wasted, it should be offered to preservation societies if it's not too rotten.

I spent many hours as a youth on the banking trainspotting in the late 70s into the 80s

I think it’s all about fuel tax. Put freight on the road which brings in callosal

Great views of the Castle. Well, what's left of it.

Great views of Hall Green. Well done

Use to work some shifts at Healy Mills in 90's , we had small shed for basic loco maintenance ,it was worked by Immingham TMD staff would only get one loco normally , got nick named Easy Mills , had nice walks down the river whilst working there . Was normally a class 37 , we could reblock there but easier way was to contact ops to get it on gas train , because it ended up at Immingham (hated blocking them )

Not brave enough to fly threw the doorway or under bridge haha

Very nice, this place looks very familiar

Good view

Amazing

Nice views

WTF went wrong? Healey Mills was vast, now it’s a hideously overgrown mess.

Nice video, looks clean for a change haha

I was so interested to see how things have changed. I grew up on Sheepwalk Lane and you have covered much of my old stomping ground. Nice one!

I thought there would have been a bit more video of the whole yard even though it has nearly all gone

@jeffreyhodge5564 I thought that myself when I watched videos on youtube of videos of european marshalling yards.... I personally think that it's because a lot of the european countries are bigger than the UK, and they transport a lot of their goods to and from other european countries by rail, neccesatating the use of marshalling yards to get the wagons to the right points to cross the appropriate border... Marshalling yards didn't really work in the UK because of the small size of the country and by the time that the wagons had been shunted more than once it was easier and quicker to transport it by lorry.

Great video thank you very much 👍👍👍

As a BR fireman back in the mid to late 60's we had regular turns with heavy freight trains from Trafford Park Sidings often with an 8F more likely a 9F or a returning Austerity WD 2-8-0. We'd often have to join the queue to release our train to be shunted, ready to work back. Hard to accept the whole area sidings have disappeared.

I remember in the 70's when it was full of freight wagons even then they said it only worked at 2 3rd capacity After the ASLEF strike in the 80's most of the wagon load freight was lost and these yards went into decline. A real shame the railways were not invested in more so we did not have so many problems on our over crowded roads today.

Sad to see our once glorious rail network ripped up

What a lovely video, nice production of it too, cool

I went to Healy mills about seven or eight years ago. We did a rescue exercise with Yorkshire Fire and Rescue along with a Team of Paramedics. We were using old Freight wagons, I think they have probably been scrapped by now. It was certainly a Busy place in it`s day.

Built at a massive cost as a result of an appalling lack of foresight and crazy transport policy changes. The conventional truck freight wagon size was just about right for Britain's roads. Now we have the nightmare of these monstrous lorries which cause havoc on a megalithic scale throughout the road system. Crazy . . . .

Brings back memories. My grandpa was a railway enthusiast. He lived in Ossett. Often if I went to stay with him he'd take me in the car to Healey Mills. Either we'd park on the bend on Storrs Hill looking down on the yard or else we'd park on the bridge at the bottom, and we'd watch the passenger trains go round the outside and the freight trains shunting in the yard. That was in the early 70s.

Lovely jubely

Very true ,I have a strange hobby ,industrial archeology ,on my travels as a salesman I travelled a large area in uk ,many the times I would observe old factories ,colliery sites ,old shipyards ,especially as I grew up in the north east and saw many ship launches in Sunderland ,old shoe factories as that was because I was involved in footwear production,

Why when you travel in Europe do you see vast active yards full of activity ,and an enormous range of freight ,same with the rivers and canal systems ,well utilised and being constantly updated and repaired?

Lovely jubley

Another good video, love the music

I may have considered flying under it, but I’m mentally not right

Very nice 😊

Brilliant video

Very nice