List of British Railways shed codes

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All British Railways steam locomotives were allocated to a particular motive power depot, usually known as a "shed". Each shed had a shed code which was displayed on an oval plate attached to the smokebox door of each locomotive allocated to that shed. This article lists the shed codes as they were in 1956, unless otherwise stated. Nowadays, the sheds are called Traction maintenance depots (TMD) and each depot has a two-letter code.

Contents 1 London Midland Region 2 Eastern Region 3 North Eastern Region 4 Scottish Region 5 Southern Region 6 Western Region 7 See also 8 Sources

[edit] London Midland Region

London Midland Region of British Railways

• 1A Willesden
• 1B Camden
• 1C Watford
• 1D Devons Road (Bow)
• 1E Bletchley
  • Leighton Buzzard

• 3A Bescot
• 3B Bushbury
• 3C Walsall
• 3D Aston
• 3E Monument Lane

• 6A Chester
• 6B Mold Junction
• 6C Birkenhead

• 8A Edge Hill (Liverpool)
• 8B Warrington
  • Warrington (Arpley)
• 8C Speke Junction
• 8D Widnes, 1962
• 8E Brunswick (Liverpool), 1956; Northwich, 1962
• 8F Springs Branch (Wigan), 1962
• 8G Sutton Oak, 1962
• 8H Allerton, 1962

• 12A Carlisle (Upperby)
• 12B Penrith
• 12C Workington

• 18A Toton
• 18B Westhouses
• 18C Hasland
• 18D Staveley
  • Sheepbridge

[edit] Eastern Region

Eastern Region of British Railways

• 30A Stratford
  • Brentwood
  • Chelmsford
  • Enfield Town
  • Epping
  • Ilford
  • Wood Street (Walthamstow)

• 30B Hertford East
  • Buntingford
  • Ware

• 31A Cambridge
  • Ely
  • Huntingdon East
  • Saffron Walden
• 31B March
  • Wisbech
• 31C Kings Lynn
  • Hunstanton

• 40A Lincoln
  • Lincoln (St. Marks)
• 40B Immingham
  • Grimsby
  • New Holland
• 40C Louth

[edit] North Eastern Region

North Eastern Region of British Railways

• 50A York
• 50B Leeds (Neville Hill)

• 52A Gateshead
  • Bowes Bridge
• 52B Heaton

[edit] Scottish Region

Scottish Region of British Railways

• 60A Inverness
  • Dingwall
  • Kyle of Lochalsh
• 60B Aviemore
  • Boat of Garten

[edit] Southern Region

Southern Region of British Railways

• 70A Nine Elms
• 70B Feltham
• 70C Guildford
• 70D Basingstoke
• 70E Reading
• 70F Fratton

• 73A Stewarts Lane
• 73B Bricklayers Arms
• 73C Hither Green
• 73D Gillingham (Kent)
• 73E Faversham

[edit] Western Region

Western Region of British Railways

• 81A Old Oak Common
• 81B Slough
  • Marlow
  • Watlington
• 81C Southall
• 81D Reading
  • Henley-on-Thames
• 81E Didcot
• 81F Oxford
  • Fairford

• 82A Bristol (Bath Road)
  • Bath
  • Wells
  • Weston-super-Mare
  • Yatton
• 82B St. Philip's Marsh
• 82C Swindon
  • Chippenham

• 83A Newton Abbot
  • Ashburton
  • Kingsbridge
• 83B Taunton
  • Bridgwater
• 83C Exeter
  • Tiverton Junction
• 83D Laira (Plymouth)
  • Launceston

• 88A Cardiff (Cathays), now Cardiff Canton TMD
  • Radyr
• 88B Cardiff East Dock
• 88C Barry

[edit] See also

• Steam locomotives of British Railways

[edit] Sources

• Ian Allan ABC Locoshed Book 1956/7
• Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, winter 1962/3 edition