Immingham engine shed, also known as Immingham depot, or more recently as Immingham TMD and is a railway maintenance depot (

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 on the

Immingham Dock The Port of Immingham, also known as Immingham Dock, is a major port on the east coast of England, located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary in the town of Immingham, Lincolnshire. In 2019, the Port of Grimsby & Immingham was the larges ...

estate, in

North East Lincolnshire North East Lincolnshire is a Unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England. It borders the borough of North Lincolnshire and districts of West Lindsey and East Lindsey. The population of the district in the 2011 Census w ...

, England. The depot code is ''IM''. In 2015 the depot was operated by DB Schenker. A separate TMD also known as Immingham TMD, but with the depot code ''IN'', is operated by Freightliner.

History

Immingham Locomotive Depot with J39 geograph-2875921-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Immingham Engine Shed and Coaling Tower 1964

The engine shed was built by the Humber Commercial Dock and Railway company in the southeastern corner of the

estate. As initially built the engine shed had twelve "roads" (tracks) providing facilities for 60 locomotives. The railways at Immingham were worked by the

Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the ...

, the developer of the Port. In 1923 it was taken over by the LNER and then became part of the

Eastern Region of British Railways The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings. Together with the North Eastern Region (w ...

in 1948. During the LNER period (1930s) a concrete automatic coaling stage was added to the facilities. During the

British Railways 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 ...

period the facility had a shed code of 40B, reproduced from

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, September 2008 and had two sub-sheds: New Holland and

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of L ...

. At its peak the shed had an allotment of over 120 locomotives, with 12 stabling roads – part of the building was demolished in the 1950s and a diesel depot constructed. Soon after opening a dormitory block was built near the turntable for use by visiting crews on lodging turns. A new x diesel shed was built in 1966 south east of the steam shed, which was converted to wagon repair. In 1966 it had 90 diesels, plus 35 shunters. Steam locomotive types deployed include

LNER Thompson Class B1 The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class B1 is a class of steam locomotive designed by Edward Thompson for medium mixed traffic work. Overview It was the LNER's equivalent to the highly successful GWR Hall Class and t ...

LMS Stanier Class 8F The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier Class 8F is a class of steam locomotives designed for hauling heavy freight. 852 were built between 1935 and 1946 (not all to LMS order), as a freight version of William Stanier's successful ...

, and BR standard class 9F. The last steam locomotive worked from the shed was No.61058 ( LNER B1) on 7 February 1966, which hauled a train of empty wagons to Markham Colliery. Following the splitting up of the former BR Trainload business into three companies in 1994, the depot came briefly under the control of "shadow privatisation company" Loadhaul. Loadhaul was acquired and merged into English Welsh & Scottish in 1995. The TOPS depot code for the EWS/DB Schenker depot at Immingham is IM, and for the Freightliner Traction Maintenance Depot at Immingham, IN. As a result of centralisation of maintenance activities by EWS to Toton TMD the shed was used only for storage of out of service locomotives.

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Immingham Engine Shed on an OS map surveyed in 1930
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