Eastleigh Depot is a depot location in

Eastleigh Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester. It is the largest town and the administrative seat of the Borough of Eastleigh, with a population of 24,011 at the United Kingdom 2011 census, 2011 census. The town ...

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

, England. The depot is situated on the

South West Main Line The South West Main Line (SWML) is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England. A predominantly passenger line, it serves many commuter areas including south wes ...

and is near Eastleigh station. The depot code is EH.

History

In 1903, the

London & South Western Railway The London and South Western Railway (LSWR, sometimes written L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922. Originating as the London and Southampton Railway, its network extended to Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and Weymouth, Do ...

opened a 15-road locomotive shed, it closed in 1967. A two road diesel shed was opened by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...

ways opened in 1958. The main shed being a four-track dead-ended shed which was extended south in 1965, and also with a four-track through-road extension on the western side. The second building is a one-track through road shed, for fuelling, which was opened in 1998. Around 1987, the depot's allocation consisted of Classes 08, 09 and 33 locomotives and Classes

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and

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DEMU A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also ...

s. Classes 47 and 73 could also be seen stabled at the depot.

Allocation

As of 2018, the depot is operated by

Arriva TrainCare Arriva TrainCare (formerly London & North Western Railway (LNWR)) is a railway rolling stock maintenance company. It is presently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arriva UK Trains. It was established as LNWR by Pete Waterman during 1993; in under a ...

servicing

CrossCountry CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise. The CrossCountry franchise was restructured by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2006, ...

Class 220 and

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''Voyagers''.Eastleigh
Arriva TrainCare

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