Stratford TMD
Stratford's cockney sparrow logo
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North British Type 1 D8404 (Class 16) at Stratford in the 1960s
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| Location | London, England |
| Coordinates | 51°32′40″N 0°00′29″W / 51.5444°N 0.0081°WCoordinates: 51°32′40″N 0°00′29″W / 51.5444°N 0.0081°W |
| OS grid | TQ381847 |
| Characteristics | |
| Depot code(s) | SF (1973-) |
| Type | Diesel |
| History | |
| Opened | 1840 |
| Closed | 1997 |
| Original | N&ER |
| Pre-grouping | GER |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| BR region | Eastern Region |
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Stratford TMD was a traction maintenance depot located in Stratford, London, England on the Great Eastern Main Line. It was located just west of Stratford station on the site occupied in July 2012 by Stratford International station. The depot was at one time the biggest on the London and North Eastern Railway with locomotives covering duties from crack express services to freight workings in London's docks.
Each UK depot has a code that is used when allocating locomotives to the depots. The original code was STF which was first used in 1875 and was replaced by the British Railways code for the depot which was 30A. In 1973 the depot carried the was coded as SX before becoming SF.
Locomotive construction took place at the adjacent Stratford Works and Stratford TMD was initially located on this site located in the V between the Lea Bridge and Great Eastern Main Lines. In 1871 the depot moved to the 'teardrop' of lines to the west of the present Stratford Regional station.
The site of the depot is now taken up by Stratford International station.
Stratford Depot, as it was often called, was built by the Northern and Eastern Railway whose line from Stratford to Broxbourne opened in 1840. By 1843 the main building was a 16 road roundhouse which eventually became known as the Polygon, with outbuildings including workshops, a blacksmith and saw pits all contained within the shed complex. On 19 February 1846 additional accommodation was authorised, which resulted in completion of the Erecting Shop the following year. It was in 1847 that the Eastern Counties Railway works in Romford were shut and moved to this site. From this time, the accommodation grew by accretion so that by 1867 the carriage department was using a building 370 ft by 80 ft (113m by 24m) attached to the north side of the Polygon. See the entry on Stratford Works for further information on this site.
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