Before Taylor went to Bethlehem, a team of seventy-five men loaded ninety-two-pound pigs of iron onto rail cars at a rate of twelve and a half tons per man per day.
The RMT rail union has called for "cast iron" assurances from the government that the decision will not hit jobs at the UK's only train manufacturer, Bombardier.
Network Rail came up with plans last month to iron out the notoriously dysfunctional Northern Hub railway nexus which messes up Manchester's east-west regional connections.