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east midlands trains 29/08/2010 at 16:38 #1688
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does any know all the east midlands trains depots
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east midlands trains 29/08/2010 at 16:38 #11116
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does any know all the east midlands trains depots
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east midlands trains 29/08/2010 at 16:43 #11118
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Google and Wikipedia are our friends...

Depots

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east midlands trains 29/08/2010 at 18:23 #11120
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best one i can think of is the one at derby...crackin when you go past on a meridian lol

also some ECS for the sheffield/leeds- st pancras is maintained at neville hill and runs via wakefield and barnsley

"We don't stop camborne wednesdays"
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east midlands trains 02/10/2010 at 21:58 #11826
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Starting at the top:
Neville Hill (Leeds) - all 'major' HST work, 153 and 156 overhauls and major component changes.
Etches Park (Derby) - all 222 Meridian work, HST servicing, 15x servicing and minor exams, recent addition of wheel lathe.
Eastcroft (Nottingham) - 158 servicing and minor exams.
and if you really want it.........
Cricklewood (North London) - stabling sidings, no facilities.
Boston (Lincolnshire) - stabling sidings, traincrew depot.
and then also.........
Crown Point (Norwich) - NXEA depot, contracted for servicing 3 EOD 158 diagrams
Crewe LNWR - contracted for servicing one EOD diagram

Before using Norwich Crown Point, Cambridge Coldhams Lane did the 3 EOD East Anglia diagrams (ceased Nov 08). Up to the same point in time, Tyseley (Birmingham) covered 15x servicing, all exams and major component exchange (as per Central Trains). 158 overhauls were done by DeltaRail in old RTC premises at Derby.

Think that just about nails it!

Pete Clay
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east midlands trains 02/10/2010 at 22:46 #11827
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what would skegness siding do
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east midlands trains 03/10/2010 at 14:10 #11837
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Nothing stables overnight at Skegness any more; as Pete says, Boston is the nearest traincrew depot and that's where units stable. The carriage sidings at Skeg are little used now (not sure if they can be used nowadays!) - I last saw them used for a charter to run round. There'd certainly be no need to go in there on a regular basis.

To add to the list - Lincoln's also a traincrew depot and a few units stable there too.

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east midlands trains 03/10/2010 at 16:23 #11838
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about 7 units stable at lincoln over night. there is a major train crew depot here.
trains from sheefeild arrive from sheffeild first thing in the morning but no train crew are based here.or units.
easet mids 222 arrives in the early morning from darby ecs for the london train, artrives back around 21.00 then works a service back to nottingham whare it terminates

hope this helps

yours

paul

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east midlands trains 05/10/2010 at 00:09 #11861
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The sidings at Skegness. No1 road (nearest fence) has been clipped out for over ten years now, the other two roads are very seldomly used for loco run rounds. If you stop correctly, you can just get round thirteen vehicles in No2 road! Don't actually know if they are officially still open, just checked for fitness when there is a need to use them.

For as long as I have been a Central / EMT driver, there have always been a number of units stable at Lincoln, in the bays and what was Plat 7 (think its all renumbered with the resignalling now). There is a reasonable sized T/C depot as mentioned. Think it's somewhere along the lines of 20-ish drivers and same amount of Guards. Boston and Norwich are the smallest with 12 of each grade at each. Leicester was once a Central T/C depot and stabling point. Usually 5-6 units overnight. For a major depot, Nottingham is the hub of the ex-Central part of EMT, with well over 100 of each grade. You can also find at least 15 - 20 units stabled in the platforms for the start of service each day, with any spares and repairs stabled on Eastcroft.

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east midlands trains 05/10/2010 at 16:53 #11874
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ozzyd9001 said:
trains from sheefeild arrive from sheffeild first thing in the morning but no train crew are based here
actually there is a set of traincrew based at sheffield who take over at sheffield and then finish there shift at sheffield (or travel back) there isnt of course a depot at sheffield though.

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east midlands trains 05/10/2010 at 16:57 #11875
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sloppyjag said:
Wikipedia

problem with wikipedia is

anyone member or non member can add random things on there

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east midlands trains 05/10/2010 at 17:30 #11879
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jc92 said:
ozzyd9001 said:
trains from sheefeild arrive from sheffeild first thing in the morning but no train crew are based here
actually there is a set of traincrew based at sheffield who take over at sheffield and then finish there shift at sheffield (or travel back) there isnt of course a depot at sheffield though.

Presumably Paul's referring to the lack of Northern traincrew at Lincoln, which is quite correct. I believe Sheffield are the only Northern depot to sign the route to Lincoln? There aren't any EMT Drivers at Sheffield, but there's a depot of Train Managers and other on-train grades - not sure how many Drivers travel 'pass' to and from Sheffield, but I wouldn't have thought it'd be many.

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east midlands trains 05/10/2010 at 18:34 #11880
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@Ipswich

If you go into the SimSig page on Wikipedia and trawl back through the discussion about the page, there is actually a statement from one of the Wikipedia moderators (and I quote verbatim here) that "to put it bluntly, truth has no sway here". You are quite right to be sceptical.

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