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Eastfield TMD

Location type

Loco shed

Names and dates

Eastfield Shed (1904-1973)
Eastfield MPD (1973-1993)
Eastfield TMD (2005-)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

Eastfield Shed did not date from the opening of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. It replaced Cowlairs Shed, which closed, located north of the Cowlairs Works.

The new shed was built after the opening of both the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway and the Hamiltonhill Branch (Caledonian Railway). It opened in September 1904. Opening must have been planned when the Hamiltonhill line opened as it crossed the then vacant site on a long viaduct. The southern part of the site was previously the Possil Brick Works.

The shed was approached from the south and was double ended. The offices building had a clocktower.

Eastfield was assigned code 65D by British Railways. It had sub sheds at Aberfoyle Shed, Helensburgh Shed, Kilsyth Shed, Kipps Shed, Lennoxtown Shed, Motherwell Shed, Parkhead Shed and Polmadie Shed.

After the end of steam the shed continued to cater for diesels. It closed around 1993 and was demolished and the track was lifted in 1994.

A new DMU depot opened on the site in 2005, partly due to overcrowding at Haymarket MPD.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Nearby stations Eastfield Platform Ashfield Cowlairs Possilpark and Parkhouse Springburn Possilpark (Private) Possil North Bishopbriggs Barnhill St Rollox [2nd] Glasgow (Townhead) Garngad Lochburn Cowcaddens [Subway] St Georges Cross [Subway]	Cowlairs East Junction Eastfield Viaduct Eastfield Tip Cowlairs Panel Box Ironstone Pit Cowlairs North Junction Cowlairs West Junction Ironstone Pit Possil Junction Cowlairs Shed Cowlairs Carriage Sidings Clydesdale Iron Works [Possil Park] Springburn Park Winter Gardens Ironstone Pit Cowlairs Works
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/09/1904	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Eastfield Shed opened north of Cowlairs West Junction. The shed replaced the running shed at the Cowlairs Works
28/06/1919	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Eastfield Shed damaged by fire, 19 locomotives were damaged.
01/05/1930	Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Sentinel-Cammell Steam Railcar shuttle introduced meeting trains from Glasgow Queen Street at Blanefield and running on to Aberfoyle. Eastfield Shed's railcar Retaliator was based at Aberfoyle shed.
/04/1960	Scottish Central Railway Stirling South Shed coded 65J as a sub-shed from Eastfield Shed.
/10/1992	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Eastfield MPD closed.
27/04/1998	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Derailment at Eastfield MPD.
/03/2004	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Grant of £14M from Scottish Executive to open Eastfield TMD on site of Eastfield MPD. The new depot to open for cleaning, fuelling and overnight stabling.
13/12/2004	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Eastfield TMD opened on the site of the closed and demolished Eastfield MPD. (Haymarket TMD was at capacity.)