West Hill TMD

Shunters and tankers at the fuel discharge point

Crompton with tender converted snowplough visiting from the nearby Southern region

Pair of neglected Westerns beside the maintenance shed

                                                                                        

English Electric type 3 visiting from Canton, Cardiff

Hydraulics outside the maintenance shed

 

  

 

A Western & Warship at the servicing shed

 

Overview of depot

 

Warship still in maroon livery but a bit shabby

Busy time at the shed

Line of shunters

Metro Cammell DMU at the depot

Falcon in ex-works condition

Train heating van & lowmac with crane alongside TMD

Hymek with faded paintwork

Shunters at fuelling point

Western on tow. Has it failed?

Western and shunter on shed

Two Warships at fuelling shed

 

   

Passenger trains

Blue Pullman at full speed

Western on an express headed by a Thompson buffet

Class 117 DMU on a local service

  

Single car class 121 DMU

 

  

A Peak on an express

  

Hymek on a passenger train

Western approaches speed restriction

Sleeper coaches being shunted

Western passes a Motorail train

Western and Warship double headed

Freight trains

Western with empty coal train

Brush type 4 with car flats carrying Ford transits

 

 

North British with branch milk train

Brush type 4 on a mixed freight passing Presflos

                                                         

North British still in green with a short freight

Hymek with 21 ton coal wagons

Brush 4 with cartics 

Crompton with coal hoppers headed by two different types of brake tenders

Brush 4 with coal hoppers

Newton Chambers car carrier being shunted

Sulzer on a pick up freight

Brush 4 towing three North British on the way to be scrapped

Western on milk bound for London

Western on china clay empties 

Western on mixed freight

Brush 4 with cement vee wagons

Shunter with Amey stone train

 

 

Departmental stock

Engineers train with a Plasser ballast regulator machine behind

Solitary Whale outside the wagon works

                                                     

Hymek and grampus wagons with dilapidated Siphon G behind

Western approaches with Sealions in tow

 

   

An empty ballast train headed by a Warship

 

 

Hymek with catfish & dogfish 

Schools class tender converted to a snow plough visiting the TMD

Brush type 2 with district manager travelling in an inspection saloon

Annual test run of a pair of snow ploughs

Brush type 2 with short P.W. train consisting of a sturgeon & brake van

Breakdown crane with old tender as dowser

 

Ultrasonic test train checking the track

Dormitory coach, grampus with compressor and Bolster A with old rail etc 

Flatrols with machinery and PW crane

Plasser ballast regulator

Three diesel brake tenders. Acton will want them back!

A new merry-go-round hopper being assessed by Test Car 1 at the rear, all hauled by a Brush type 4 

Plasser tamping machine