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BRITISH RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE DEPOTS, WORKS AND STABLING POINTS.

Photographs in this gallery are of locomotive depots, both steam and diesel, locomotive works, stabling points and withdrawn locomotives but not those being scrapped. Some of these pictures were taken by me, some passed on by friends and others have been bought and are part of my collection. These pictures are published for pleasure/information/research purposes only and are not for sale or copy under any circumstances. Information in captions has been researched as thoroughly as possible but its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
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MARKET HARBROUGH MOTIVE POWER DEPOT (15F) - 1961 - home here to a couple of 4F's and a couple of 8F's. This is about all there was of it. I remember seeing 18000 in store here when I was a boy. The depot is seen here in 1961 and closed in 1965.
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MARKET HARBROUGH MOTIVE POWER DEPOT (15F) - 1961 - home here to a couple of 4F's and a couple of 8F's. This is about all there was of it. I remember seeing 18000 in store here when I was a boy. The depot is seen here in 1961 and closed in 1965.

  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - 45122, withdrawn in April 1987, arrived at March on June 1st in company with 45013 and 45126 and became loco no.16. Seen here in September 1993 after 6 years of neglect and vandalism. Scrapped by MC Metals, Glasgow, in February 1994.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - 45133, withdrawn but receiving privileged treatment, 11/87. The depot staff even started it up occasionally. In 1962 a steel-framed diesel depot was built on the site of the original shed, complete with spillage trays and oil drainage facilities. In 1987, the 4 track extension to the original shed was also demolished and replaced by a purpose built diesel facility. The depot was closed in 1992 with the withdrawal of remaining Speedlink network. This meant that the depot had no work. However, in 2003, Whitemoor Yard re-opened and on 18 April 2008 GB Railfreight officially opened their new depot at March. This is located in the former goods shed in the former Down Yard to the east of March station. The main shed it to the left and the small shed on the right is the 'A Shed' where light maintenance was carried out.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - a Class 31 receives some attention in the A Shed, 11/86.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - A class 31/1 goes off Depot, 02/88.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - A nice line-up in the sidings on Hundred Road. These were usually used for storing visiting locos out of the way, usually having worked in during the night and awaiting their return trains in the evening, not required for the Speedlink feeders usually worked by local engines. Here we see examples of Classes 37, 47, 25, 40 and 20. Class 20's were sent down here because they took up so much room!
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - Hundred Road sidings, 4 locos, 4 classes, 31164, 47601, 25194 and 37306, 05/03/85.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - March Shed was built by the Great Eastern Railway as part of the redevelopment of local railway facilities in the mid-1880's, when the construction of a new, larger station at March had meant that the earlier engine shed had had to be demolished. Construction of the new shed included realigning the branch line to Wisbech further west and replacing a level crossing at Norwood Road with a bridge. The new shed was a brick built 6-track straight shed with a triple gable style slate roof. It was provided with the 2 northerly roads as through and the other 4 roads dead-ended on the west side. In 1900 a turntable was provided on the north side of the shed yard, being enlarged to 70 foot in 1925 when a corrugated asbestos clad 4-track straight through shed was added along the north side of the original building. After the 1923 Grouping, the LNER built a new locomotive shed in Hundred Road. A brick built 5-track straight through washout shed was added in 1933. During World War Two, March Shed was considered of strategic importance in both operational and national level. The LNER diesel shunters, locomotives which included a large switching board at the rear of the cab to enable them to be used as mobile power stations in the event of bomb damage affecting local supplies, were delivered new to March to work the humps in Whitemoor Yards. Due to locomotive examination problems caused by the wartime blackout the shed was provided with an Illuminated Loco Inspection Pit, generally referred to as the Light Tunnel. This building contained six rows of tube lights, two on either wall and one on either side of the pit. This building remained in use until the end of steam. With the arrival of diesel shunters, Roads 1 and 2 were dedicated for their use. As more diesel locomotives entered service the first four roads were partitioned off, with all diesel maintenance and repairs taking place there. In April 1959, just before siesels started to make serious inroads, the allocation consisted of 131 steam locos, mainly mixed traffic and goods types, and 8 diesel shunters. Forty Brush Type 2 diesels were based at the depot by the early 1960's. Diesel locomotives were fuelled on site despite the lack of spillage trays and the timber beams of the old steam shed. In 1962 a steel-framed diesel depot was built on the site of the original shed, complete with spillage trays and oil drainage facilities. In 1987, the 4 track extension to the original shed was also demolished and replaced by a purpose built diesel facility. The depot was closed in 1992 with the withdrawal of remaining Speedlink network. This meant that the depot had no work. However, in 2003, Whitemoor Yard re-opened and on 18 April 2008 GB Railfreight officially opened their new depot at March. This is located in the former goods shed in the former Down Yard to the east of March station. This is a shot across the Shed Yard showing the breakdown crane, a Class 03 shunter and a Class K1 2-6-0 in May 1960. Seen here viewed from the east in February 1988. The Depot still boasted a good allocation of Class 31's and Class 37's at this date.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - Recycled Peaks - the western end of March Depot with 45029 (97410), 45066 (97413) and 45034 (97411) undergoing repair and renumbering whilst 45133 (rear) and 45108 (right), both of which were eventually preserved, drove in under their own power and recieved preferential treatment from the outset. November 1986. In 1962 a steel-framed diesel depot was built on the site of the original shed, complete with spillage trays and oil drainage facilities. This shed had 6 servicing bays, 3 at each end, although in later years those at the western end were not much used. In 1987, the 4 track extension to the original shed was also demolished and replaced by a purpose built diesel facility. The depot was closed in 1992 with the withdrawal of remaining Speedlink network. This meant that the depot had no work. However, in 2003, Whitemoor Yard re-opened and on 18 April 2008 GB Railfreight officially opened their new depot at March. This is located in the former goods shed in the former Down Yard to the east of March station.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - Steam Shed Sidings with about 35 locomotives in store with the diesel depot in the background, 02/88. I'm not sure where I took this from but it was obviously high up. This is the site of the second steam depot with the tracks and inspection pits still in place although the building is long gone. The 'Light Tunnel' was on the far left just beyond the nose of the first Class 20.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - the 'A' Shed, with 08 427 in the foreground and 37 200 and a Class 47 inside, 02/88.
  • MARCH TRACTION MAINTENANCE DEPOT (MR) - withdrawn Class 08 shunters litter the Depot yard, 11/86. Note that part of the steam shed still stands in the background.
  • MARKET HARBROUGH MOTIVE POWER DEPOT (15F) - 1961 - home here to a couple of 4F's and a couple of 8F's. This is about all there was of it. I remember seeing 18000 in store here when I was a boy. The depot is seen here in 1961 and closed in 1965.
  • MELTON CONSTABLE (32G) - The Running Shed in August 1932. A Class B tank on the extreme left, a Class A next to it and two Class C's in the mouth of the shed, No.47 on the right.
  • MELTON CONSTABLE WORKS - A view inside the M&GN's Erecting Shops at Melton Constable. While it was certainly no Crewe, it provided employment in an area where there was little alternative to agriculture. Seen here are a clutch of Johnson 4-4-0's in various stages of undress, probably in the 1920's.
  • MELTON CONSTABLE WORKS - The Erecting Shop in the Works, main centre of activity, seen here in 1939 - must be holiday week!
  • MEXBOROUGH LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT (36B) - This was a very large 18 road dead-end shed concerned only with goods traffic and most of that concerned with the coal and steel industries. In 1952, the date of this picture, the shed was full of locos, mainly of the heavy goods variety and of ex-GCR origin.
  • MEXBOROUGH LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT (36B) - This was a very large 18 road dead-end shed concerned only with goods traffic and most of that concerned with the coal and steel industries. When this picture was taken in 1957, showing Class J11 No.64377, typical of the locos allocated here, it was still a sub-shed of 36A Doncaster but in February 1958 became a sub-shed of Sheffield Darnall as 41F. The allocation in March 1959 was 87 engines, all but one being goods engines. The depot closed in February 1964.
  • MIDDLESBROUGH LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT (51D) - This was a very large depot opened in 1866 and eventually boasting three roundhouses and an allocation of 64 locos in 1954. It sat in the midst of a maze of dockside and industrial lines and was much damaged during World War Two. It closed in May 1958 to be replaced by the newly rebuilt depot at nearby Thornaby. Here we see locomotives of Classes G5, V3, Q6 and an Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0.
  • MIDDLESBROUGH LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT (51D) - This was a very large depot opened in 1866 and eventually boasting three roundhouses and an allocation of 64 locos in 1954. It sat in the midst of a maze of dockside and industrial lines and was much damaged during World War Two. It closed in May 1958 to be replaced by the newly rebuilt depot at nearby Thornaby. It is seen here in May 1954 still showing signs of damage inflicted by the Luftwaffe with Class Q6's Nos. 63340 and 63373.
  • MIDDLESBROUGH LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT (51D) - This was a very large depot opened in 1866 and eventually boasting three roundhouses and an allocation of 64 locos in 1954. It sat in the midst of a maze of dockside and industrial lines and was much damaged during World War Two. It closed in May 1958 to be replaced by the newly rebuilt depot at nearby Thornaby. Seen here inside one of the roundhouses is Class J27 No.65771 at its home depot in May 1952.
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