Cathays Yard Poem by David Boyce

Cathays Yard

It's the end of an era
For the old railway yard
There are no sounds of railwaymen
Working really hard

They'd take some old trains apart
And see what they could save
They even took the wheels off
And put them on a lathe

The men would strip down old engines
And put them back together
The trains would then shunt around the yard
In all kinds of weather

Now the yards been closed and sold
The tracks taken away
There's only the old sheds there
And we don't think they will stay

This was once a busy rail depot
In its working hay days
It's been built on with lots of flats
For the new students to stay


Written by David Boyce
11 August 2006