Carlisle Kingmoor TMD is a railway
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 ...
situated in
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...
,
England
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. The depot is operated by the
Direct Rail Services
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a rail freight company in Great Britain. As of 2022, it is one of seven publicly owned railway companies in the United Kingdom, the others being NI Railways (the passenger rail operator in Northern Ireland), LNER, ...
(DRS). The depot was originally used to service
diesel locomotives
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels ...
and
diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also ...
s. The current depot code is KM. The original steam shed was called Carlisle (Kingmoor) and its
shed code
British Railways shed codes were used to identify the motive power depot, engine sheds that its locomotives and multiple units were allocated to for maintenance purposes. The former London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) alpha-numeric system w ...
was originally 68A and later 12A.
The current depot is located on the opposite side of the
West Coast Main Line
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to the original steam shed and was officially opened on 1 January 1968. Under
British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
control, the depot closed in 1987 and lay derelict until 1998 when the site was taken over by
DRS. Since then a number of developments have taken place with the installation of a sand tower and increased office space.
Kingmoor marshalling yard is situated immediately to the north of the site.
On 22 July 2017 DRS organised an open day at Carlisle Kingmoor TMD. During the open day, loco 66301 was named after the depot, receiving plates with the name 'Kingmoor TMD'. 66301 is the first DRS
Class 66 to be named since the type entered traffic with the British operations.
Allocations
DRS has a large number of its fleet at Kingmoor.
See also
*
Carlisle Upperby TMD
Carlisle Upperby TMD is a former railway traction maintenance depot situated in Carlisle, England. The depot is owned by DB Cargo UK. The depot was originally of service to steam locomotives (shed code 12A). The depot code is now CL. The old ...
References
;Notes
;Sources
* ''Rail Atlas Great Britain & Ireland'', S.K. Baker,
* Hawkins and Reeve ''LMS Engines Sheds vol 1 - the L&NWR''
Railway depots in England
Buildings and structures in Carlisle, Cumbria
Transport infrastructure completed in 1968
Rail transport in Cumbria
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