London north eastern railway.
Long marston railway sidings.
I seem to remember seeing withdrawn sr emus stored in the sidings at micheldever on the south western main line during the 70 s 80 s.
Others are standing useless at ely in cambs and long marston warks.
London north western railway.
Long marston is an ex mod site some 7 miles to the south west of stratford upon avon.
The site at long marston is the largest and most extensive rail storage facility in the uk and its customers read like a who s who of rolling stock ownership.
In 1903 long marston had a staff of seven this increased to eight staff in the 1920 s and in 1931 the staff at milcote also became the responsibility of the station master at long marston and the combined establishment numbered twelve staff.
In june 1941 a new west ground frame with four levers together with an east ground frame was supplied for the war department sidings with both being released from long marston signal box.
It is situated at the end of a long siding from honeybourne station on the oxford worcester line and used to be on the gwr main line from birmingham to the west country and south wales.
It consists of some 20km 12 miles of storage sidings and is connected to the national rail network at honeybourne on the worcester to london line served by all the freight operating companies focs taking advantage of 24 7 ac cess.
There is still stock locos stored at the former mod depot at long marston and the mod depot at kineton.
Stratford midland junction railway.
A view of the exchange sidings and yard at long marston.
It consists of some 20km of storage sidings and is connected to the national rail network at honeybourne which is on the worcester to london line.
Once the train had run into the exchange sidings at long marston 47813 was detached to be replaced by this 0 4 0 shunter named james.
The long marston military railway project sought to keep alive military railway skills such as re railing of trains as well as locomotive driving and track laying following the disbanding of the british army s last railway unit the royal logistic corps 275 railway squadron in march 2014 as a result of government defence cuts.
Thousands of ghost trains are standing idle in railway sidings despite years of chronic overcrowding a probe found.
The site at long marston is the largest and most extensive storage facility in the uk.