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English: Cambridge: last remains of the Great Northern Railway Goods Yard - 1 These yellow-brick buildings on Hills Road, now being demolished as part of the CB1 development, were originally the offices of the Great Northern Railway goods and coal yard, which once filled the area between the houses on the east of Hills Road and the south end of the passenger station. Before the railway Grouping of 1923, Cambridge was principally served by the Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street to Kings Lynn line and associated branches, but also by the London & North Western line to Bedford and Oxford, the Great Northern to Kings Cross and - from the north end of the station - the Midland Railway to Kettering. The GER yards and the cattle market were on the eastern side of the station, behind Rustat Road, and the large locomotive shed and yards to the north, on the land behind Platform 6 part of which is now car park and part a housing development. This photograph is taken from the corner of Hills Road and Brooklands Avenue. The Warren Close flats on the old coal yard land are on the right. Keith Edkins' photo 1620789 shows part of this ensemble in December 2009.