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Birkenhead Mollington Street was a former Traction Maintenance Depot located at Mollington Street in Birkenhead, England, on the Birkenhead Dock Branch railway. The depot serviced steam and subsequently diesel locomotives until 1985 when it was closed and demolished. ==Steam== The Birkenhead Railway was formed on 1 August 1859 as a result of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Railway merging with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. The new company was originally called the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway, but in 1859 shortened its name to The Birkenhead Railway.〔Casserley (1968). Pages 140-142.〕 Taken over on 1 January 1860, it became a joint railway owned and operated by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the Great Western Railway (GWR), becoming a joint railway.〔 The new partners need new and better servicing facilities for their fleets, and so built the new joint-depot in 1878. The shed consisted of two separate but conjoined 8-road straight sheds: *LNWR: to the north, an 8-road pitched-roof shed. Coaling stage to the west, turntable at the shed throat *GWR: to the south and closest to the running lines, an 8-road northern-light pattern roofed shed. Coaling stage to the west, turntable to the south on an entrance siding. Originally coded ''BHD'', it later became ''24'' On nationalisation, the entire depot came under the control of British Railways London Midland Region, allocated code ''6C''. Steam locomotives stabled at the depot included: GWR 6800 Class; GWR 5101 Class; GWR 5700 Class; LMS Black Fives; LMS 8F class; and BR standard class 9F.〔 In 1951, the ex-LNWR shed was reduced in scale by half its width, to allow the construction of a new 2-road straight diesel shed in its place. The LNWR coal stage was removed, meaning all coaling moved to the southern GWR coalstage. A new diesel fueling stage was built on the entrance throat to the new diesel depot.〔 In 1963 as the Beeching cuts were felt, the entire ex-GWR allocation was removed and sent south to Swindon Works for reallocation or scrapping.〔 The final day of steam at the shed was 5 November 1967. The depot code was ''8H'', between September 1963 and May 1973〔 and finally ''BC'' between May 1973 and closure, in 1985. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Birkenhead Mollington Street TMD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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