Birkenhead Mollington Street
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A Class 03 inside the depot, in 1983.
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| Location | Birkenhead, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53°23′11″N 3°01′10″W / 53.3865°N 3.0195°WCoordinates: 53°23′11″N 3°01′10″W / 53.3865°N 3.0195°W |
| OS grid | SJ322882 |
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| Owner(s) | British Rail |
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| Opened | 1879 |
| Closed | 24 November 1985 |
| Original | Chester and Birkenhead Railway |
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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.
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. 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:
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.
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