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Name of the depot Business area responsible Abbreviation Berlin-Friedrichsfelde Berlin S-Bahn: BFF Berlin-Grünau Berlin S-Bahn BGA Berlin Ostbahnhof DB Fernverkehr: BHF Berlin-Rummelsburg: DB Fernverkehr BRGB Berlin-Wannsee Berlin S-Bahn BWS Braunschweig DB Regio: HBS Bremen Railion: HB 1 Bremerhaven Railion HBH Chemnitz DB Regio DC Cottbus DB ...
From the introduction of TOPS in 1973, all British Rail diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units were allocated to a particular traction maintenance depot or TMD. . Drawing from the terminology of steam traction, these depots were generally referred to as "sheds", and indeed most locations were those which had possessed depots for steam loc
The Franco–Crosti boiler is a modification of the conventional fire tube boiler design used on most steam locomotives. Unlike conventional boilers the heat remaining in the exhaust gases is used to preheat the water supply for the main boiler using a secondary heat exchange mechanism.
British Railways was created on 1 January 1948 principally by the merger of the "Big Four" grouped railway companies: the Great Western Railway (GWR), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and the Southern Railway (SR).
Bescot TMD is a locomotive traction maintenance depot in Bescot, an area of Walsall in the West Midlands, England. Situated adjacent to Bescot Stadium railway station, the depot with code BS is currently operated by DB Schenker Rail (UK). Bescot Yard is to the south-east of the depot.
After locomotive-hauled trains were replaced by Pendolinos in 2002 [9] and the Royal Mail traffic was transferred to the roads in 2003, [10] the depot became obsolete and closed in 2004. [11] In 2018 the depot was demolished in advance of the start of tunnelling work for the High Speed 2 Euston approach tunnels and the extension of Granby ...
Depot brigades were often organized, reorganized, and inactivated as requirements to receive and train troops rose and fell, and later ebbed and flowed during post-war demobilization. [10] Depot brigades were organized into numbered battalions (1st Battalion, 2d Battalion, etc.), which in turn were organized into numbered companies. [11]