Jim Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Hi, I'm just shuffling my diesel depot about. I've also "shut" a remote two-road DMU depot and moved them into the diesel depot. I've built two new roads in the depot and placed the Bachmann two road train care shed over them to provide for carriage cleaning and light maintanence. So my question is, would this have happened in prototype? Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
55007A Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Not quite sure if this is what you mean but Hull Botanic Gardens often had locos in the shed which was principally a DMU depot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mervyn Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 We had a 158 unit stable on Saltley on the weekends and also when I was at Tyseley there were mainline locos repaired in shed alongside dmus HTH...mervyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted November 14, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2018 Eastleigh maintained class 33s and its allocation of 3H (class 205) DEMUs in the same shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wn 1A Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Hi, I'm just shuffling my diesel depot about. I've also "shut" a remote two-road DMU depot and moved them into the diesel depot. I've built two new roads in the depot and placed the Bachmann two road train care shed over them to provide for carriage cleaning and light maintanence. So my question is, would this have happened in prototype? Cheers Hi, I'm just shuffling my diesel depot about. I've also "shut" a remote two-road DMU depot and moved them into the diesel depot. I've built two new roads in the depot and placed the Bachmann two road train care shed over them to provide for carriage cleaning and light maintanence. So my question is, would this have happened in prototype? Cheers Hi, Eastfield (Glasgow, [old diesel depot]), Cricklewood (London, [old diesel depot]), Laira (Plymouth). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) Yes. At Bristol the DMU fleet was originally mantained at Marsh Junction. While Bath Road depot looked after the loco fleet. In 1983 the 'Daily Shed' at Bath Road, (roads 7, 8, and 9) close to the end of platform 12 at Temple Meads was extended to fit 3-car DMUs for fuel and exam, and later two roads of the 'Main Shed' were adapted to undertake daily exams of locos and DMUs, edit - to add date, 1983 was when the 'Daily Shed' was extended. cheers Edited November 14, 2018 by Rivercider Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBRJ Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 St Blazey shed did the overnight servicing etc on three or four sprinters right up until Wessex Trains merged with FGW. So did Long Rock, I think they still do now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted November 14, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 14, 2018 We had a 158 unit stable on Saltley on the weekends and also when I was at Tyseley there were mainline locos repaired in shed alongside dmus HTH...mervyn.Tyseley used to get a lot of main line locos on the diesel shed which replaced 'The Factory'. This was partly due to the presence of a wheel lathe. It did not only diesels but occasionally a.c. electric locos and EMUs and I even saw a Manchester - Bury unit in there on one occasion. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Allerton. It's always been a bit of a smorgasbord. You would see everything from shunters to express passenger locomotives and units of all kinds. As well as occasional steam. Even now it has shunters, DMUs and EMUs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allerton_TMD Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Newton Heath was good back in the day and Longsight too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Banger Blue Posted November 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2018 (edited) Chester Diesel Depot was a mix of Locos and DMUs. (Edit to add Flickr link - not my photo) Chester Depot: https://flic.kr/p/MDnXiS Edited November 14, 2018 by Banger Blue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted November 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 15, 2018 Norwich had both and Thornaby did in late 80s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted November 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 15, 2018 Worcester and Exeter too.... Phil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Newton Heath (26A,9D etc) was the main shed for Victoria and north Manchester area services. Any DMU that could be found in Victoria was found on shed. As for locos well the usual suspect from the Manchester area plus a few from foreign parts turned up in particular from southern wales (usual worked the Oldham mail order trains) not forgetting a D400 from the Glasgow/Man Vic service. Just one example of a shed used for all diesel motive power in the 1970/80s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Etches Park Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted November 15, 2018 Author Share Posted November 15, 2018 Thanks for the excellent replies guys..! Really helps Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Haymarket and Inverness also both had locos and DMUs allocated and maintained there, and Inverness adds another element in that the diesel depot was formerly a works ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 15, 2018 Some of my past gang of carriage cleaners would love the fact you provided a shed for them to work in as a lot of our stock had to stand outside. (not that we dealt with dmus, unless you count HSTs ). Reading had a new short 2 road shed added for loco servicing but locos were still occasionally dealt with and fuelled in the dmu shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonC Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 There must be a lot of depots like that - Ayr would be another Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norton961 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Stoke (Cockshut) depot had both DMUs and Type 2 diesels in the mid 1960s. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted November 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 15, 2018 Cambridge Diesel Depot was primarily a DMU depot but had an allocation of diesel shunters of classes 03 and 08, and main line diesels went there for light exams (brake block changes etc). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Cambridge Diesel Depot was primarily a DMU depot but had an allocation of diesel shunters of classes 03 and 08, and main line diesels went there for light exams (brake block changes etc). And D5508 was allocated there for a brief period (1 month?), I guess for some sort of training. I believe it was the only main line loco ever allocated there. Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRAILRAGE Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Seem to remember back in the 80's at Reading when pairs of Class 37's were used on the Roberston - Theale - Robertson oil trains they used to stable in the depot after dropping off their train at the Terminal. Possibly for refueling . When the 56's took over they used to stable in No3 bay . Remember when I was about 13 My friend and I were invited on board 56053 (remember like it was yesterday) by the driver who took us through the engine bay telling us what everything was. Staff were so much friendlier in those days. When the 60's took over they also stable in No3 bay as well but there always seemed to be a big Loco in the depot. Cheers Trailrage Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Devil Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Reddish could be very cosmopolitan on the right day...DMU, EMU, DC Electric, Diesel,Shunters etc, chuck in an odd Blue Pullman in their day too.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/95430950@N07/25265901307/in/photolist-EuEmd4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexChem Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Buxton was another Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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