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were included. It consists of six parallel shed roads, each holding four locomotives inside the shed, and several arrivals and departure sidings externally. There is also a road that runs round to the north of the shed, which provides access to the fuel siding; for many years, this was used only for
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The arrival and departure sidings contain two connections to the West Coast main line onto the up slow line. At the east end of the depot, there is a trailing crossover to permit access onto the down slow line when coming off depot.
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In more recent years, especially since the loss of AC electric locomotives, the fuel siding was promoted to other train operators as a facility at Willesden and a means to generate some revenue, this meant for instance that
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the occasional fuelling of diesel shunters and also to the DC lines of Willesden Junction Low Level station, which is used to move multiple units from the shed onto the North London Line after servicing.
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These include offices, a workshop and reasonably large stores. The workshop contains high quality facilities for pantograph overhaul, tap-changer overhaul and brake equipment test and servicing.
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was on the south side of the main line, west of the station, which closed in 1965. It was replaced by the present facility.
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The current depot was designed in the 1960s to service electric locomotive classes AL1 to AL6 (TOPS classes
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and back each night for 'A' examinations and fuelling which could instead be carried out at Willesden.
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Railway traction maintenance depot in north London, England
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The original Willesden Locomotive Depot in November 1962
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Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Brent
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London Overground
Class 87
Willesden
London
51°31′52″N 0°14′23″W / 51.5312°N 0.2397°W / 51.5312; -0.2397
OS grid
TQ220828
Alstom
Electric
British Rail
BR region
London Midland Region
electric multiple unit
traction maintenance depot
Harlesden
London
West Coast Main Line
Willesden Junction
London Euston

locomotive servicing facility
Willesden
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