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Willesden Brent Sidings
Willesden Brent sidings is a marshalling yard and stabling point located in Willesden, London Borough of Brent, England. The sidings are situated on the eastern side West Coast Main Line and to the west of Willesden Junction station, between the station and Wembley Yard. The area is also situated between Stonebridge Park and Harlesden stations on the Watford DC line and the Bakerloo line The Bakerloo line () is a London Underground line that runs between in suburban north-west London and in south London, via the West End. Printed in brown on the Tube map, it serves 25 stations, 15 of which are underground, over . It runs par .... The depot code is WE. References {{Railway yards in Great Britain Railway depots in London Transport in the London Borough of Brent Railway sidings in England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willesden
Willesden () is an area of north-west London, situated 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Charing Cross. It is historically a parish in the county of Middlesex that was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Willesden in 1933; it has formed part of the London Borough of Brent in Greater London since 1965. Dollis Hill is also sometimes referred to as being part of Willesden. With its close proximity to affluent neighbourhoods Brondesbury Park, Queen's Park, London, Queen's Park and Kensal Rise, the area surrounding Willesden Green tube station, Willesden Green station has seen increased gentrification in the past several years, with rapidly rising property prices. ''The Daily Telegraph'' described Willesden Green as one of London's "new middle class" areas. The area has a population of 44,295, as of United Kingdom 2011 Census, 2021, including the Willesden Green, Dollis Hill and Dudden Hill wards. Willesden Green has one of the city's highest Irish people, Irish populations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Borough Of Brent
Brent () is a London boroughs, borough in north-west London, England. It is known for landmarks such as Wembley Stadium, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London, Swaminarayan Temple and the Kiln Theatre. It also contains the Brent Reservoir, Welsh Harp reservoir and the Park Royal commercial estate. The local authority is Brent London Borough Council. Brent's population was estimated to be 339,800 as at 2021. Major districts are Kilburn, London, Kilburn, Willesden, Wembley and Harlesden, with sub-districts Stonebridge, London, Stonebridge, Kingsbury, London, Kingsbury, Kensal Green, Neasden, London, Neasden, and Queen's Park, London, Queen's Park. Brent has a mixture of residential, industrial and Commercial district, commercial land. It includes many districts of inner-city character in the east and a more distinct suburban character in the west, part of which formed part of the early 20th century Metro-land, Metroland developments. Local government Administrative history Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DB Schenker
Schenker AG (trading as DB Schenker) is a subsidiary of Danish logistics company DSV. The company was previously owned by German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, which acquired the subsidiary back in 2002. It comprises divisions for air, land, sea freight, and Contract Logistics. As of April 2025, Schenker has 71,100 employees at more than 1,850 locations in over 130 countries. The company's revenue was 19 billion euros in 2024. Schenker serves global and local firms across several industries. Notably, Schenker manages large and complex supply chains for multinationals such as Apple, Procter & Gamble, Dell, ASML, BMW. History Gottfried Schenker founded Schenker & Co. in Vienna, Austria, in 1872. In 1931, Schenker was acquired by the German Railways ( Reichsbahn). After Hitler came to power in 1933, the Nazis placed Dr. Edmund Veesenmayer, on the board. During the Nazi era, the Schenker Company was "one of the most important enterprises engaged in pillage and plunder during Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diesel Locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover (locomotive), power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels. The most common are diesel–electric locomotives and diesel–hydraulic. Early internal combustion engine, internal combustion locomotives and railcars used kerosene and gasoline as their fuel. Rudolf Diesel patented his first compression-ignition engine in 1898, and steady improvements to the design of diesel engines reduced their physical size and improved their power-to-weight ratios to a point where one could be mounted in a locomotive. Internal combustion engines only operate efficiently within a limited power band, and while low-power gasoline engines could be coupled to mechanical transmission (mechanics), transmissions, the more powerful diesel engines required the development of new forms of transmiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshalling Yard
A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, and the former Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard used to accumulate railway cars on one of several tracks. First, a group of cars is taken to a track, sometimes called a ''lead'' or a ''drill''. From there, the cars are sent through a series of switches called a ''ladder'' onto the classification tracks. Some larger yards may put the lead on an artificially built hill called a ''hump'' to use the force of gravity to propel the cars through the ladder. Freight trains that consist of unrelated cars must be made into a train grouped according to their destinations; this shunting is done at the starting point. Some trains drop and pick up cars along their route in classification yards or at industrial sidings. In contrast is a unit train that carries, for example, automobiles from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stabling Point
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic. Cars or wagons are moved around by specially designed yard switcher locomotives (US) or shunter locomotives (UK), a type of locomotive. Cars or wagons in a yard may be sorted by numerous categories, including railway company, loaded or unloaded, destination, car type, or whether they need repairs. Yards are normally built where there is a need to store rail vehicles while they are not being loaded or unloaded, or are waiting to be assembled into trains. Large yards may have a tower to control operations. Many yards are located at strategic points on a main line. Main-line yards are often composed of an up yard and a down yard, linked to the as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London and Glasgow with branches to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. It is one of the busiest mixed-traffic railway routes in Europe, carrying a mixture of intercity rail, regional rail, commuter rail and rail freight traffic. The core route of the WCML runs from London to Glasgow for approx. and was opened from 1837 to 1881. With additional lines deviating to Northampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh, this totals a route mileage of . The Glasgow–Edinburgh via Carstairs line connects the WCML to Edinburgh. However, the main London–Edinburgh route is the East Coast Main Line. Several sections of the WCML form part of the Urban rail in the United Kingdom, suburban railway systems in London, Coventry, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, with many more smaller commuter stations, as well as providing li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willesden Junction Station
Willesden Junction () is an interchange station located in Harlesden, north-west London. It is situated on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness and Mildmay lines of the London Overground. The station is located close to the Old Oak Lane conservation area in the East Acton ward. History The station developed on three contiguous sites: the West Coast Main Line (WCML) station was opened by the London & North Western Railway on 1 September 1866 to replace the London and Birmingham Railway's Willesden station of 1841 which was to the northwest. Passenger services ended in 1962 when the platforms were removed during the electrification of the WCML to allow the curvature of the tracks to be eased. Later the bridges for the North London line (NLL) were rebuilt. The High-Level station on the NLL was opened by the North London Railway in 1869 for two Richmond tracks and later for two Shepherds Bush tracks, both crossing the WCML roughly at right angles. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wembley Yard
Wembley Intercity Depot (alternatively, Wembley Brent Depot) is an Electric Traction Depot located in Wembley, London Borough of Brent, England. The depot is situated alongside Wembley Yard, on the eastern side of the West Coast Main Line, to the south of Wembley Central station. The depot code is WB. Part of the depot was originally known as Stonebridge Park Depot, which is also the name of the adjacent London Underground facility. Stonebridge Park station, on the Watford DC and Bakerloo lines, is to the immediate south-east and Willesden Brent Sidings are across the A406 North Circular Road, also to the south-east. Allocation As of 2020, the depot's allocation consists of Avanti West Coast Class 390 ''Pendolinos'' and Caledonian Sleeper ''Caledonian Sleeper'' is the collective name for overnight Sleeping car, sleeper train services between London and Scotland, in the United Kingdom. It is one of only two currently operating sleeper services on the railway in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stonebridge Park Station
Stonebridge Park is an interchange station in Tokyngton and Stonebridge, north-west London. It is on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground, between Wembley Central and Harlesden stations. The station is located on Argenta Way, and is named after the nearby junction connecting the North Circular Road ( A406) with the Harrow Road ( A404). History The line serving the station was opened by the London and North Western Railway as part of their New Line project on 15 June 1912. It closed on 9 January 1917 and reopened for Bakerloo line trains on 1 August 1917. One of the generating stations supplying this network was on the site of the current London Underground depot north west of the station. The carriage shed, now without direct connection to the DC line, between Stonebridge Park station and Stonebridge Park LU depot was originally built to house LNWR stock using the DC line. The current station platforms and associated buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlesden Station
Harlesden () is an interchange station on Acton Lane, in north-west London, England. It is a stop both on the Bakerloo line of the London Underground and the Lioness line of the London Overground. It lies between Stonebridge Park and Willesden Junction stations. History was the first station at the site, which was opened in 1841 by the London and Birmingham Railway; it was closed in 1866, replaced by Willesden Junction station, to the south east. In the Watford DC line programme of new electrified suburban tracks of the London and North Western Railway, a new station, ''Harlesden'', opened on 15 June 1912. Bakerloo line services on the same tracks began on 16 April 1917, via a new junction at Queens Park. The Watford Junction to modernisation project was completed in 1922. Location The railway line here is the border between the Harlesden and Stonebridge residential area in the east, and the Park Royal industrial estate to the west. The southern end of Willesden Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watford DC Line
The Watford DC line is a suburban railway line from London Euston to Watford Junction in Greater London and Hertfordshire. The line is shared by services on London Underground's above-ground section of the Bakerloo line between Harrow & Wealdstone and Queen's Park, and London Overground's Lioness line which runs over its entire length. The line runs beside the West Coast Main Line (WCML) for most of its length. The rolling stock used on the line are the London Overground Class 710 "Aventras" made by Bombardier and the London Underground 1972 Stock. The Watford New Line was opened in stages by the London and North Western Railway from 15 June 1912 as part of a wider scheme of suburban capacity improvement and electrification. Delayed by World War I, full electric service from Watford Junction to Euston commenced on 10 July 1922. The "DC" in the title refers to line being electrified using direct current. This was done in the early twentieth century with conductor rails to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
