Craigentinny Traction Maintenance Depot (also known as Craigentinny Train Maintenance Centre) is a railway depot in the

Craigentinny Craigentinny ( gd, Creag an t-Sionnaich) is a suburb in the north-east of Edinburgh, Scotland, east of Restalrig and close to Portobello. Its name is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic ''Creag an t-Sionnaich'' meaning "Foxrock" but more like ...

area of

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, Scotland. The depot is operated by

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with a depot code of EC. The depot opened in 1904, as a carriage sidings and was home to

InterCity 125 The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125New trai ...

HSTs operated by

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until 31 December 2019. It does however still maintain

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InterCity 125 sets overnight. It also services Class 220/

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Voyagers for CrossCountry and Class 397s for

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. Hitachi Rail now undertakes maintenance on London North Eastern Railway Class 800s and 801s,

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Class 385s, TransPennine Express Class 802s and

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Class 803s. It also maintains Class 73s for the ''

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''.Craigentinny base for Caledonian Sleeper 73/9s ''

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'' issue 787 11 November 2015 page 31 The site comprises three maintenance sheds, two of which are supplied with 25,000 volts overhead wires, and a smaller repair shed for shorter trains and locomotives. There are a number of storage and stabling sidings which are not covered. On 11 November 2018,

took over the operation of Craigentinny Depot from London North Eastern Railway. Craigentinny also operates a wheel lathe at its Portobello Edinburgh site which turns out tyre damage on rail vehicle wheels for many rail operators.

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