Heaton TMD
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Heaton TMD
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| Location | |
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| Location | Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Coordinates | 54°59′13″N 1°33′54″W / 54.987°N 1.565°WCoordinates: 54°59′13″N 1°33′54″W / 54.987°N 1.565°W |
| OS grid | NZ278659 |
| Characteristics | |
| Owner(s) | Northern |
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| Type | Electric, HST, DMU |
| History | |
| Original | North Eastern Railway |
| Pre-grouping | LNER |
| Post-grouping | British Railways |
Heaton TMD is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in the Heaton area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, it is located next to the East Coast Main Line, around 2 miles (3 km) east of Newcastle Central. Heaton was a sub-shed of Gateshead between 1963 and 1967.
Originally built by the North Eastern Railway to provide steam locomotives serving principally the extensive Heaton marshalling yards and freight traffic, but also a considerable proportion of main line and local passenger traffic from Newcastle Central.
The location meant that it provided motive power to the .75 miles (1.21 km) and steep Riverside Branch. Unliked by crews due to the need to pass through three tunnels and the resultant toxic smoke in their cabs, in 1905 it was electrified using 750 VDC technology, with power supplied via both overhead catenary and, within the tunnels, third-rail. Both of the BTH/Brush 640 hp (BR Class ES1) locomotives were based at Heaton, designed as a Bo-Bo with central cab. They worked from the shed until 1967.
Coded 52B in the NE Region (Newcastle District) under British Railways, in 1954 it had an allocation of 95 locomotives, comprising:16x 4-6-2; 17x 2-6-2; 1x 4-4-0; 14x 2-6-0 (9 LNE + 5 LMS-type); 14x 0-6-0; 12x 2-6-2T; 1x 0-6-2T; 18x 0-6-0T; and 2x ES1's.
After demolition and redevelopment to diesel traction in the 1960s by British Railways, today the depot is operated by Northern, and mostly houses stock operated by them and Grand Central. The depot code is HT.
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