List of rail yards


This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
These are important marshalling yards for the formation of freight/goods trains, and/or with a large volume of traffic, and/or with a very extensive track systems; including classification yards, hump yards, freight handling yards, and intermodal terminals.

North America

Canada

;From west to east:

United States

By state in alphabetical order:

Alabama

Arkansas

Arizona

California

Colorado

  • * Denver:
  • ** 36th Street Yard
  • ** Globeville Yard
  • ** North Yard
  • ** Rennix Yard
  • * Pueblo: Pueblo Yard

Connecticut

Delaware

  • * Wilmington: Edgemoor Yard
  • * Wilmington: Wilsmere Yard

District of Columbia

  • * Washington: Ivy City Yard
  • * Washington: Benning Yard

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Source:

New York


North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Tennessee

  • * Chattanooga:
  • ** DeButts Yard
  • ** Wauhatchie Yard
  • * Emory Gap: Emory Gap Yard
  • * Etowah: Etowah Yard
  • * Knoxville: John Sevier Yard
  • * Memphis:
  • ** Leewood Yard
  • ** Tennessee Yard
  • ** Harrison Yard
  • ** Rossville Intermodal Terminal
  • ** Sargent Yard
  • ** Harris Yard
  • * Nashville:
  • ** Radnor Yard
  • ** Kayne Ave. Yard

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Mexico

Europe

British Isles

Ireland

Within the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland there are no notable marshalling yards still extant.
North Wall yard in Dublin is used for loading permanent way materials trains and stabling unused stock. Also host a small wagon repair shop used to maintain ore and container wagons.

Great Britain

British Railways undertook a major programme of investment in marshalling yards in the early 1960s, some of which were arguably obsolete before they even opened. Many have since been closed entirely. Those that remain have been substantially dismantled. None retain hump facilities and instead see only very limited flat-shunting.
Yards currently in operation
As of 2009, DB Schenker Rail (UK) operates the following marshalling yards, defined as sites "where trains can be marshalled or re-marshalled using resident pilot locomotives, ground staff and train examination staff".

Nordic countries

[Finland]

[Norway]

  • Oslo: Alnabru
  • Bergen
  • Trondheim
  • Fauske
  • Narvik

[Sweden]

Baltic states

Eastern Europe

Central Europe

Germany

In Germany due to ongoing consolidation it is likely that some yards will close. The ones likely to continue in operation are marked in bold.

Benelux

France

Alpine countries

Southeastern Europe

Southern Europe

Russia

  • Sankt-Peterburg-Sortirovochnyy-Moskovskiy
  • Volkhovstroy I
  • Smolensk-Sortirovochnyy
  • Bekasovo-Sortirovochnoye
  • Lyublino-Sortirovochnoye
  • Bryansk-L'govskiy
  • Rybnoye
  • Orekhovo-Zuyevo
  • Yudino
  • Agryz
  • Nizhniy Novgorod-Sortirovochnyy
  • Lyangasovo
  • Losta
  • Yaroslavl'-Glavnyy
  • Bataysk
  • Likhaya
  • Liski
  • Kochetovka I
  • Im. Maksima Gor'kogo
  • Anisovka
  • Penza III
  • Syzran' I
  • Dema
  • Kinel'
  • Perm'-Sortirovochnaya
  • Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochnyy
  • Voynovka
  • Chelyabinsk-Glavnyy
  • Orsk
  • Orenburg
  • Moskovka
  • Vkhodnaya
  • Altayskaya
  • Inskaya
  • Krasnoyarsk-Vostochnyy
  • Tayshet
  • Irkutsk-Sortirovochnyy
  • Komsomol'sk-Sortirovochnyy
  • Khabarovsk II

Asia

Africa

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

South America

Brazil

  • Uvaranas
  • Rio de Janeiro Docks
  • Açailândia