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Ivo

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Hi all,

Could someone provide me with a definitive list of London Midland depots, and if possible the exact capacities and workforce sizes associated with each please? I require this information for a piece of fiction myself and several others are working on, in which one person is a depot driver for LM.

TIA :D
 
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Can't get numbers, and I'd be very surprised if you could. Locations are;

Snow Hill
Leamington
Stourbridge
Worcester
New St
Wolves
Shrewsbury
Crewe
Coventry
Northampton
Bletchley
(can't recal, but also Euston *maybe*)
 

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Can't get numbers, and I'd be very surprised if you could. Locations are;

Snow Hill
Leamington
Stourbridge
Worcester
New St
Wolves
Shrewsbury
Crewe
Coventry
Northampton
Bletchley
(can't recal, but also Euston *maybe*)

as above but no one at euston, also add Watford Junction to the list, but this is a conductor only depot no drivers.
 

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as above but no one at euston, also add Watford Junction to the list, but this is a conductor only depot no drivers.
There is a small base of supervisors and dispatchers employed by London Midland at Euston.
 

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Northampton is the dedicated Siemens Traincare Depot for the 350s, where major maintenance is undertaken on the trains. It has a five road main building, with space for one train on each road, and further space for another 350 on the approach roads outside. The stabing sidings alongside the depot buidling can hold a further 18 trains. On paper, all the 350s are allocated to Northampton.

Snow Hill and Leamington Spa are stabling points, which stable up to three hybrid 150s each. At Leamington, the trains are stabled in the bay platforms on the north west side of the station. Tyseley depot in Birmingham is responsible for principal maintenance for London Midlands' 150 and 170 fleets.

Stourbridge and Worcester have extensive stabling sidings. Worcester has space for a maximum of 9 or 10 trains, principally three carriage 150s from the Stourbridge line. Stourbridge sidings deal with LMs' 150s, alongside Chiltern 168s used on the morning Kidderminster-London services, overnight. Four sidings stable up to 8 trains each night. I think that both Worcester and Stourbridge are fuelling points.

Soho depot in Birmingham is the maintenance facility for the 323s used on Birmingham local trains: It has a two road maintenance shed that can hold a total of two trains, and stabling sidings to hold 16 further trains. During the day, it also used to be used to stable a Silverlink 321 between diagrams on the Northampton runs. I think it still performs the same function with a LM 350, but I'm not sure.

The main depots are:
Northampton: 350s
Tyseley: 170s and 150s
Soho: 323s

These three will have the largest workforces, most of the remainder are fuelling and/or stabling points which will have a much smaller number of LM employees working there.
 

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Just any LM-related depot to be honest. Although those that are sufficiently large to require a team of depot drivers (shunters?) are more important to this.

So is NMP the closest to London we're going to get then?
 

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Crewe is also a sizeable base - I was surprised by just how many are based there!
 

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Also just worth mentioning... Northampton is ceasing to exist in 4 weeks time, which is also when the (temporarily) double time agreement ends. All transferred to Bletchley, with Euston opening up as a base. So those in Northampton commute to Bletchley, sign on, taxi/passenger back to Northampton to pick up a unit... You couldn't make it up :lol:

Also mass exodus of staff imminent; lots retiring from Bletchley and the ex-FOC types who came over have got fed up and going elsewhere.

LM going to be going through a spot of bother I feel soon... Morale is apparently non-existent.
 
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