Engine Shed
Motive power depot, usually abbreviated to MPD, is a name given to places where locomotives are stored when not being used, and also repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds", or, for short, just sheds. Facilities are provided for refuelling and replenishing water, lubricating oil and grease and, for steam engines, disposal of the ash. There are often workshops for day to day repairs and maintenance, although locomotive building and major overhauls are usually carried out in the locomotive works.
MPDs in Britain are now often known as traction maintenance depots.
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... Collieries and at the south end was Staveley (G.C.) Engine Shed (shed code 38D and latterly 41H in BR days) ... This, too, was subject to confusion with the ex-MR "Staveley" engine shed over a mile away at Barrow Hill, which was coded 18D in BR days ... Staveley ex-GC engine shed has been razed to the ground, but Barrow Hill Engine Shed has risen from the ashes as a significant railway engineering and preservation ...
... St Blazey engine shed dates from the opening of the Cornwall Minerals Railway on 1 June 1874 ... The workshops included a distinctive roundhouse engine shed of nine 70 feet long roads around a turntable ... Each shed road had a 58 feet long pit between the rails for servicing engines ...
... The engine shed was situated between the Caradon line and the china clay siding ... connected to the Great Western Railway, although passenger trains were normally kept in another shed at Looe ... In Great Western Railway days the shed was home to two locomotives, normally as an outstation from St Blazey engine shed or, for a few years, Laira TMD ...
... above was Tuxford Locomotive Works and within the triangle was Tuxford Engine Shed ... The engine shed was originally expected to be the line's principal depot, however, it was soon realised that the main centre of activity would be Langwith Junction ... Nevertheless, the shed continued to house goods and shunting locomotives until closure on 31 January 1959 ...
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