Needlefield Carriage Sidings
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Needlefield Carriage Sidings, Scotland
Opened on the Inverness and Nairn Railway.
Description
The site of the bulk of the Needlefield Carriage Sidings in Inverness is now a container depot. The site is north of Inverness station, and its bypass line, just to the east of Longman Road.
The southern part of the site has a new depot, opened in 1981, where the Caledonian Sleeper carriages are maintained. Since 1995 sleeper maintenance has been wholly based in Inverness.
Both container depot and carriage depot are approached from the east.
This was the site of the Needlefield carriage and wagon works, which supplemented the Lochgorm Works to the south, over the station's bypass line (Rose Street Curve). The works included a saw mill with a timber yard and drying shed.
There was a large carriage shed, with around seven roads. Latterly used as a carriage cleaning shed the sidings and structure became redundant with the withdrawal of locomotive hauled trains in the late 1980s. Following a period of disuse the sheds were cut back with the office portion, in the west, being retained. The sidings to the rear were pared back to create the container depot.
An earlier carriage depot was south of the station, Inverness Goods and Inverness Shed.
Tags
Sidings carriage sidings12/03/2020
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