Neville Hill is a railway
train maintenance depot in
Osmondthorpe
Osmondthorpe a district of east Leeds in West Yorkshire, England is considered part of the Halton Moor district.
It is situated in the LS9 Leeds postcode area, two miles (3 km) to the east of Leeds city centre between East End Park and H ...
,
Leeds
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, England on the
Leeds to Selby Line. The depot is situated to the east of
Leeds railway station
Leeds railway station (also known as Leeds City railway station) is the mainline railway station serving the city centre of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is the fourth-busiest railway station in the UK outside London (as of March 2020). I ...
on the north side of the line.
The TOPS depot code is NL.
History
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In 1899 the locomotive shed at
Holbeck
Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It begins on the southern edge of Leeds city centre and mainly lies in the LS11 postcode district. The M1 and M621 motorways used to end/begin in Holbeck. Now the M621 is the o ...
was found not to have sufficient capacity for the number of locomotives using it, so an additional depot was constructed at Neville Hill
by the
North Eastern Railway at a cost of £132,971, with the facility being extended in 1904.
Sometime during the 1950s the four-roundhouse shed was reduced by half and given a new frontage.
A DMU shed is believed to have been added in 1958 along with servicing facilities for diesels although main line locomotives such as
Class 45s were still being stabled outside the old brick-built steam shed in 1961. D2000 series 0-6-0 diesel shunters were the first diesel locos allocated to Neville Hill, probably about that time; the quartet in 1961 comprised D2242-4/6.
At the formation of
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 ...
ways in 1948 the depot code was 50B, under York (50A). In 1959 it was transferred to the Leeds District under Holbeck (55A) and re-coded 55H. After 1973 the depot code became NL.
A completely new set of buildings were opened in 1969 to cater for diesel locomotives, DMUs, and coaching stock. This included a new carriage cleaning plant, an inspection pit and a repair shed.
At this time the main use of the depot was for DMUs and carriages, but by 1980 Neville Hill was maintaining
HSTs and
Class 08 shunters.
The allocation at this time reflected the changes going on in British Rail with a move from loco-hauled coaching stock to fixed formation HSTs, so that the allocation of locomotives in 1977 was just 4
Class 08 shunters while the larger locomotives were located on the south side of Leeds at Holbeck shed, but by 1985 all nine of the shunters for the Leeds area were allocated to Neville Hill along with 55
HST power cars.
In 1987, the depot had an allocation of
Class 08 shunters. Classes
101,
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,
110
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,
111,
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142 142 may refer to:
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and
150 150 may refer to:
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DMUs and
High Speed Trains
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were also allocated.
The line from Leeds City station to Neville Hill depot was electrified in the early 1990s as a corollary to the
East Coast Main Line
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electrification project. The electrification was energised in March 1993.
On the evening of the 13th November 2019, an empty
LNER LNER may refer to:
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Class 800 collided with the rear of an empty LNER
set. No one was injured but significant damage was done to the 800 and the rear
Class 43 power car.
Current
The depot is owned by
Network Rail
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but operated by
Northern Trains
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for light and heavy maintenance, and train storage.
CrossCountry
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The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) ...
and
London North Eastern Railway
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also use the site for train storage. The site employs over 400 people (2009).
Rolling stock in the modern era
Northern Trains have
Class 150,
Class 155,
Class 158,
Class 170,
Class 331 and
Class 333s allocated to Neville Hill.
In 2012
East Midlands Trains
East Midlands Trains (EMT) was a British train operating company owned by the transport group Stagecoach, which operated the East Midlands franchise between November 2007 and August 2019.
Following the Department for Transport (DfT) award ...
' facility at Neville Hill was used for the
Project Miller restoration of a prototype
Class 41) number 41001 to working condition.
East Midlands Railway
Abellio East Midlands Limited, trading as East Midlands Railway (EMR), is a train operating company in England, owned by Abellio, and is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise.
History
In March 2017, the Department for Transport a ...
and its predecessors maintained
High Speed Trains
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at the depot until they were withdrawn in May 2021.
In December 2020, LNER transferred its remaining
InterCity 225 sets from
Bounds Green TMD
Bounds Green TMD (also known as Bounds Green Train Maintenance Centre) is a traction maintenance depot situated in Bounds Green, North London. The depot is to the immediate north of Alexandra Palace railway station. It is presently operated by ...
.
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