BRITISH RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE DEPOTS, WORKS AND STABLING POINTS.
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KINGS CROSS LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT (34A) - Known to all as 'Top Shed', it was very much the 'creme de la creme', playing home to most of the LNER's express engines at one time or another. It consisted of two buildings, one of 8 roads and the other of 7, and was located just off the northwestern end of the station. Access was rather awkward and required locos to run through Belle Isle tunnel before going on/off shed. In March 1959, the allocation was 107 engines, with about half of them being tank engines for shunting or local passenger work. The shed closed to steam in June 1963, a victim of diesels and the Clean Air Acts, and diesel maintenance was transferred to the new depot at Finsbury Park. Seen here in September 1937 is Gresley LNER Class A4 Pacific No.2510 QUICKSILVER, only two years old and based at Kings Cross and from where she was withdrawn in April 1963,