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Millhouses engine shed was an engine shed in Millhouses, Sheffield. It was built by the Midland Railway in 1901 as Ecclesall engine shed, to serve the Midland Main Line. The shed was built next to Millhouses Station; it had 8 dead end roads, and could handle about 40 steam locomotives. Ecclesall shed was renamed Millhouses in 1920. Millhouses bore the shed code 25A, then 19B in 1935 and finally 41C in 1958. In 1959 the shed had an allocation of 33 engines, including 12 Jubilee steam engines. It closed on 01 January 1962 when Tinsley Marshalling Yard and its depot opened, the shed's remaining engines were transferred to Canklow.
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- Fox, Peter, (1990) The Midland Line in Sheffield, Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-872524-16-8.
- Pixton, B., (2000) North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route, Cheltenham: Runpast Publishing.
