However, Mr Shepherd fears there may be more redundancies among the permanent way staff following the completion of the Crewe - Glasgow electrification scheme.
Some signalmen also face loss of their jobs through automation of signal boxes.
We had a terrible blow when they closed the marshalling yards but this has come as a bombshell. He added that it would be discussed at a meeting of the council's General Purposes Committee on Monday. We were envisaging some reduction in staff but nothing so drastic as this. It means that Carnforth is no longer a railway town. It will be destroyed in this respect,' he said.