Crewe Electric TMD (officially named Crewe IEMD – International Electric Maintenance Depot) is a

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for AC electric and diesel-electric locomotives. It is situated to the north-west of

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railway line, opposite

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. Road access is from Wistaston Road and the depot is operated by

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. Starting in 1987, when

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introduced depot plaques on its locomotives. Locomotives allocated to Crewe IEMD carried a plaque depicting an Eagle. 92027 George Eliot at Stafford

References

Rail Atlas Great Britain & Ireland, S.K. Baker

External links

*Depot Director
West Coast (Internet Archive)
*A
overhead view
of the depot.

is the long, rectangular building and Crewe Electric is on the branch of tracks to the south. Railway depots in England Rail transport in Cheshire {{England-rail-transport-stub

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