Haymarket MPD

Location type

Loco shed

Names and dates

Haymarket Shed [2nd] (1900-1963)
Haymarket MPD (1963-)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

This is a train maintenance depot in the west of Edinburgh, just west of Haymarket station and accessed from the east.

This is the second shed at Haymarket. It was originally a steam shed and was re-developed as a diesel depot in 1963.

British Railways assigned the code 64B.

Tags

Shed

Aliases

Haymarket Shed Haymarket TMD




News items

05/04/2006First ScotRail agrees Bombardier contracts [First ScotRail]
16/06/2005Hull Trains 170/3s at Haymarket [Railscot]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

Edinburgh ( Western New Town) 1877: Edinburgh Large Scale Sheet 34 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (Auld Kirk Museum Publications)
Edinburgh To Inverkeithing.: including The Port Edgar, North Queensferry And Rosyth Dockyard Branches. (Scottish Main Lines.)

Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Waverley Station Through Time
Edinburgh's Transport: The Early Years v. 1
Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Haymarket Motive Power Depot Edinburgh: A History of the Depot, Its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010

Landranger (66) Edinburgh, Penicuik & North Berwick (OS Landranger Map)

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

On Either Side, 1939: The Train between London King's Cross & Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Inverness & Aberdeen (Old House)

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

This Magnificent Line (the story of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian