Bristol Barton Hill TMD is a

traction maintenance depot The motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine shed ...

located in

Barton Hill, Bristol Barton Hill is an area of Bristol, just to the east of the city centre and Bristol Temple Meads railway station. It includes residential, retail and industrial premises and is crossed by major roads, railway tracks and the Bristol Feeder Canal ...

, England. The depot is located on the

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to the north-east of Bristol Temple Meads station.

History

Bristol Barton Hill TMD opened 1840 as locomotive depot. From 1870 it was used as a carriage and wagon depot. In 1960, a new shed was built to service the ''

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''. Locomotives returned in July 1995 when the depot was taken over by

Rail Express Systems Rail Express Systems (RES) was a sector of British Rail. This sector was responsible for transport of mail and parcels, including the travelling post office trains, as well as taking over charter operations from InterCity and haulage of the Roya ...

(RES) after

Bristol Bath Road TMD Bristol Bath Road depot was a railway traction maintenance depot in central Bristol, England, which was in use from 1852 until 1995. History The Bristol and Exeter Railway opened workshops at Bath Road in January 1852. 35 locomotives were built ...

closed. In 1996 it was included in the sale of RES to EWS. In 2001 it resumed servicing passenger stock with

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Class 220 and Class 221s being serviced overnight. In 2004, stored Class 56 locomotives were reactivated at Barton Hill before being exported to France. In 2011 Barton Hill was transferred within the

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group from Axiom to

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. As such it has also performed overhaul work on trains for

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and

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( Class 158s},

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( Mark 3s) and Tyne & Wear Metrocars. As at September 2022, five

CrossCountry CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the Cross Country franchise. The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) ...

sets are serviced at Barton Hill each night; four Class 220/221s and one Class 170.Services calling at Bristol Barton Hill TMD on 1 September 2022

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It also services steam locomotives in between duties on the ''

Torbay Express The ''Torbay Express'' is a named passenger train operating in the United Kingdom. The Torbay Express departs from Bristol Temple Meads railway station on summer Sundays at approximately 09:15 with arrival back in Bristol at about 20:10 (depe ...

''.

Incidents

CrossCountry 221129 derailed on 24 March 2014 just outside of the depot. The train suffered minor damage and nobody was injured, but the track was heavily damaged, being pulled 6 inches sideways and sleeves being destroyed along with cables and the track needed grinding down.

References

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