Ipswich engine shed information

Ipswich engine shed was an engine shed located in Ipswich, Suffolk on the Great Eastern Main Line. It was located just south of Stoke tunnel and the current...

and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds" or just "sheds". Facilities are provided for refuelling and the replenishing...

the design. Ipswich engine shed (later shed code 32B) opened in 1846 and was at the south end of Stoke tunnel. It was the third-largest shed in the Great...

locomotive No. D8221 crashed through buffers whilst shunting at Ipswich engine shed and ended up across Croft Street. After attempts to tow it back onto...

diesel multiple units numbers 79066 and 79282. Driver Skeels from Ipswich engine shed was at the controls. The event was filmed. In September 2011, Suffolk...

Norwich engine shed was located in Norwich, England and was opened in 1843. It closed in 1982 and was replaced by a new modern facility at Crown Point...

deal with some repairs although these were generally undertaken at Ipswich engine shed further down-line. A new, larger turntable was provided on the site...

Chelmsford, Norwich and Peterborough. The town's railway engine shed opened in 1846 and closed in 1968. Ipswich is still a signing-on point for locomotive crews...

is near Ipswich station. The depot code is IP. As of 2016, the depot's allocation consists of Greater Anglia Class 321 EMUs. Ipswich engine shed "The all-time...

painting of around 200 carriages each year. Many engine sheds carried out heavier repairs. Ipswich engine shed for instance had a tube shop and a smithy containing...

the official report the boiler foreman at Ipswich engine shed was blamed. The victims were buried in Ipswich cemetery and both their gravestones have a...

Mexborough engine shed was an engine shed in Swinton, in South Yorkshire, England. It was built by the Great Central Railway and opened in 1875. The shed was...

railway sidings. These consisted of a carriage and wagon works and Ipswich engine shed. Subsequently the site had its tracks removed and was redeveloped...

In later years the Snape working was a bonus working operated by Ipswich engine shed drivers where the workings were carried out as quickly as possible...

Under Great Eastern Railway (GER) organisation Colchester shed fell under the Ipswich engine shed area. At this time it had the code COL. In 1866 GER minutes...

the council. Ipswich engine shed Promotion, speculation and their outcome: The "steamship mania" of 1824–1825 References to the Ipswich Steam Navigation...

under British Railways. Most locomotives would have been based at Ipswich engine shed which supplied branch line motive power for most branch lines in...

British Railways shed codes were used to identify the engine sheds that its locomotives and multiple units were allocated to for maintenance purposes...

instead operated the line with locomotives from Ipswich engine shed. Until January 1959 there was a small sub-shed at Felixstowe Town where crews were based...

other engine sheds grew up around the expanding ECR network either being constructed by the ECR or the railways it took over; for example Ipswich engine shed...

of engine sheds and railway works located in York. The large York North engine shed became the National Railway Museum in 1975. The following engine sheds...

locomotives carried a green livery and would have been maintained at Ipswich engine shed which at that time also functioned as the works facility for the...

single-track brick-built engine shed from opening, as the next nearest facility for the EUR facility was Ipswich engine shed. The Eastern Union Railway...

venue. The first engine shed was located immediately west of the railway station when Bury St Edmunds was a terminus station for the Ipswich and Bury Railway...

sheds, later modified to two through shed designs), as well as a continuation of the roundhouse construction for other depots such as North Ipswich (1910)...

re-used, for example in the Westinghouse Brake and Spray Paint Shed (R48). The North Ipswich Railway Workshops were initially required to carry out assembly...

had a small single tracked engine shed where the branch engine was kept overnight. This was a sub shed belonging to the Ipswich Locomotive District and on...