DMU / EMU Only TMD's

[western Champion]

Did Tyseley in Birmingham have any locos left after steam finished ?

Tyseley had after steam days an allocation of 08's and still has two on it's books to this day. Tyseley also did a lot of running repairs to class 20's, 47's etc in BR days.
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Soho was built new for the 323s wasn't it?

The current shed at Soho was built solely to maintain the 323s and even then wasn't built for a number of years after the 323s were introduced.

When I signed Soho in 1989 it was used for stabling the wiring train and 304s, 310s. We used to take the 304s to Longsight for maintenance and the 310s to Bletchley.

 

[theblackwatch]

The current shed at Soho was built solely to maintain the 323s and even then wasn't built for a number of years after the 323s were introduced.

When I signed Soho in 1989 it was used for stabling the wiring train and 304s, 310s. We used to take the 304s to Longsight for maintenance and the 310s to Bletchley.

From what I remember, the 4 Class 312s dedicated to WMPTE services (312201-4) were also allocated to Bletchley. Anyone remember the flying canary (312204) in yellow and blue?

 

[Genocide]

Corkerhill?

And, depending upon how you define a DMU, Craigentinny.

 

[45041]

Anyone remember the flying canary (312204) in yellow and blue?

Ahh unhappy memories of that lol. It had a number of nicknames. .. mine was the bruised banana or the bruised canary. What a horrific livery that was!!!
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Yeah Tyseley had an allocation of 08s which were for the depot and iirc was for Bham New St station pilot and I think Bordesley.

BTW... how about Bournemouth?

 

[Eagle]

BTW... how about Bournemouth?

I think that had diesel locos up until the line to Weymouth was electrified around 1988.

 

[RichmondCommu]

I think that had diesel locos up until the line to Weymouth was electrified around 1988.

Hmmm I'm pretty certain that all the class 33's working on that route would have been allocated to Eastleigh and not Bournemouth.

 

[12CSVT]

Bournemouth had various classes of diesel shunter until 1979 (03084/086/179/180/196/197, 07010/012/013, 09025/025/026) were all allocated to Bournemouth in the 1970s, although not all at the same time. 73109 was allocated to Bournemouth from 1993 to 2004 or 2005.

 

[43074]

Nottingham Eastcroft, opened in 1999 it never had an allocation of trains when new, it just serviced Central Trains units when they were away from Tyseley. Since November 2007 though, East Midlands Trains' 153s and 158s have been allocated to the depot although heavier work is carried out at Neville Hill or Derby Etches Park.

 

[Taunton]

Plymouth Harwell Street (sometimes known as Belmont Street) was a dmu-only depot built with the first dieselisation in Devon/Cornwall around 1960. Its first allocations were the 15 Birmingham RCW 3-car dmu sets, which it got from new, and a handful of the Gloucester RCW 'Bubble Car' single units, which ironically were often used in pairs, hauling tail loads such as vans or milk tankers. Strangely, given the Western Region's liking for decently-seated cross-country units, the whole of the Devon/Cornwall scheme was initially done with suburban-seated units.

I believe it didn't last very long. It was on the west side of the Millbay branch from Plymouth North Road down to the docks, between the running tracks and Harwell Street itself (still there). The site had previously been the carriage shed for the GWR 'Ocean Saloons' used for boat trains from Plymouth Millbay up to Paddington.

 

[zn1]

Croxley green looked after all the new line units until closure in 1985, also a stabling point for bakerloo units..

bletchleys orignal of allocation, 310/0, 312(four units),

the branch Dmu fleet,the marylebone dmu fleet

08 shunters for movements

then it became 313, 317 - orignally the new line 313 allocation was still hornseys with a willesden fitter at watford. Bletchley then took them on..

310/1, 313, 321 & 323 then became the allocation

321 & 323, 117 & 121 for the branch, and Goblin jobs.

08s were allocated here and a trip to wolverton for shunter exchange would occur when maintenance was due on the shunters...

Bletchley was also a stabling point and fuel point...

all train crews signed most traction until the privatisation left them with just the unit work, Bletchleys allocation was a great mix, and it was of the can do depots, when BY closed it was a sad day for the network

 

[142094]

South Gosforth has been throughout - built to replace part of the carriage sheds at Walkergate (now Heaton) after a fire. Interestingly, it has gone full circle, having the Tyneside Electrics, to DMUs after the 3rd rail was lifted, and back to electric with the Tyne and Wear Metro.

 

[DXMachina]

Anyone remember the flying canary (312204) in yellow and blue?

It made it to Euston periodically. I saw it at Hemel Hempstead on a sunny day around 1987. The image was burned into my retinas and visible whenever I blinked well into the 1990s