Immingham engine shed

Template:Passenger Lines of North East Lincolnshire Immingham engine shed, also known as Immingham depot, or more recently as Immingham TMD and Template:Citation needed span is a railway maintenance depot (traction maintenance depot) located on the Immingham Dock estate, in North East Lincolnshire, England. The depot code is IM.Template:Sfn

In 2015 the depot was operated by DB Schenker. A separate TMD also known as Immingham TMD, but with the depot code IN, is operated by Freightliner.

History

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LNER Class J39 at the shed (1947)

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Shed building behind the camera, two 9F 2-10-0s and a named B1 4-6-0 in shot (1964)

The engine shed was built by the Humber Commercial Dock and Railway company in the southeastern corner of the Immingham Dock estate. As initially builtTemplate:Sfn the engine shed had twelve "roads" (tracks)Template:Sfn providing facilities for 60 locomotives.Template:Sfn

The railways at Immingham were worked by the Great Central Railway, the developer of the Port.Template:Sfn In 1923 it was taken over by the LNER and then became part of the Eastern Region of British Railways in 1948.

During the LNER period (1930s) a concrete automatic coaling stage was added to the facilities.Template:Sfn

During the British Railways period the facility had a shed code of 40B and had two sub-sheds: New HollandTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn and Grimsby.

At its peak the shed had an allotment of over 120 locomotives,Template:Sfn with 12 stabling roadsTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn – part of the building was demolished in the 1950s and a diesel depot constructed.Template:Sfn

Soon after opening a dormitory block was built near the turntable for use by visiting crews on lodging turns.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn

A new Template:Convert x Template:Convert diesel shed was built in 1966 south east of the steam shed, which was converted to wagon repair.Template:Sfn In 1966 it had 90 diesels, plus 35 shunters.

Steam locomotive types deployed include LNER Thompson Class B1, LMS Stanier Class 8F, and BR standard class 9F.

The last steam locomotive worked from the shed was No.61058 (LNER B1) on 7 February 1966, which hauled a train of empty wagons to Markham Colliery.

Following the splitting up of the former BR Trainload business into three companies in 1994, the depot came briefly under the control of "shadow privatisation company" Loadhaul. Loadhaul was acquired and merged into English Welsh & Scottish in 1995.

The TOPS depot code for the EWS/DB Schenker depot at Immingham is IM, and for the Freightliner Traction Maintenance Depot at Immingham, IN.

As a result of centralisation of maintenance activities by EWS to Toton TMD the shed was used only for storage of out of service locomotives.

See also

• List of British Railways shed codes

References

Sources

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Further reading

• Template:Cite magazine

External links

• Immingham Engine Shed on an OS map surveyed in 1930 National Library of Scotland
• The shed DavesRailPics
• Steam on shed DavesRailPics
• Steam on shed flickr
• Diesel on shed flickr
• On shed RailScot
• Diesels on shed YouTube
• On shed Yahoo
• The shed, coaling tower and Barracks from the air Britain from Above