Depots at sectorisation from 1982 onwards, who owned them?

[robertclark125]

When the BR business sectors were created in 1982, to co-exist with the regions, over the years, some depots got signage relating to a specific sector, which was the main user. For example, Westbury got Railfreight signage, Craigentinny got Intercity signage. Hornsey got NSE signage, Inverness got regional railways/Scotrail signage. But, when the sectors were created in 1982, did the sectors take ownership of the depots, or did the regions still own them, with the sectors paying the regions to use them, and the prime user paying for the signage?

 

[Clarence Yard]

No. They were under the Regions for a few more years.

The Regions really lost control in 1987 when the M&EE Engineers for the various sectors and sub sectors were appointed and started to exert control. The regions lost their ability to determine allocations at the same time and a degree of regional management responsibility also passed to M&EE HQ at Derby.

There was then a few years of “matrix management” between the rising sectors and sub sectors, the declining regions and the M&EE HQ at Derby before the sub sectors finally took over fully.

Depots were allocated to sub sectors on the basis of prime user. They could be split, or even change hands when workload shifted. It was a very unstable period for a lot of depots, especially the multi user ones.

 

[GrimShady]

Any idea who ran Eastfield Depot. Was it ScotRail up till 1990 and then Rail Freight after that?