Shed Layout
The depot was designed in the 1960s, to service electric locomotives AL1 to 6 (tops classes 81 to 86) and subsequently class 87s, and consists of 6 parallel shed roads (each holding 4 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 and this provides access to the fuel siding, (which for many years was used only for the occasional fueling 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.
The arrival and departure sidings contain two connections to the West Coast main line onto the up slow. At the east end of the depot, there is a trailing crossover to permit access onto the down slow when coming off depot.
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