Old Oak Common TMD

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Old Oak Common TMD is situated to the west of London, in Old Oak Common. The Traction Maintenance Depot is the main facility for storage & servicing of locomotives and multiple-units which utilise Paddington Station. The depot codes are the diesel depot OC, & OO, the carriage shed.

The area is also the location where two GWR main lines bifurcate: the 1838 route to Reading via Slough, and the 1906 New North Main Line via Greenford to Northolt Junction, the start of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Line. Only the former is in use for regular passenger service, with the latter being used by freight trains, diversionary workings, and ECS movements.

1 Railway Depot
2 Allocation
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Railway Depot

The site is also the ancestral home of the Great Western Railway's primary London depot. The trains which operate the First Great Western services, the Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect are maintained at a depot north of the Great Western Main Line

South of the line is North Pole depot, presently where the Eurostar trains which operate on Channel Tunnel routes have their UK base. This will be closed from 2007 with the opening of the new international terminal at St Pancras railway station, and servicing will move to the new Temple Mills depot located near Stratford International. The depot is approximately half a mile south-west of Willesden TMD.

[edit] Allocation

First Great Western have supplemented the fleet inherited from British Rail with Class 180 Adelante multiple units.

Class 43 High Speed Train - Used for long-distance express services
Class 57 locomotive - Used for sleepers and Motorail
Class 180 ‘Adelante’ diesel multiple unit used for semi-fast services - (Required until the end of 2007 at latest - being returned to lease company once enough refurbished HSTs are available)
Class 165 - Two- or three-coach Turbo DMU used on commuter services to London (ex First Great Western Link)
Class 166 - Three-coach Turbo DMU used on longer commuter services to London (ex First Great Western Link)
Class 360 - Four-coach EMU (being strengthend to five coaches) used on Heathrow Connect services (ex First Great Western Link, joint operation with BAA)