Brighton Lovers Walk Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a
traction maintenance depot
A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds" or just "sheds". Facilit ...
located in
Brighton
Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
,
East Sussex
East Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Kent to the north-east, West Sussex to the west, Surrey to the north-west, and the English Channel to the south. The largest settlement ...
, England. The depot is situated adjacent to the
Brighton Main Line
The Brighton Main Line is a railway line in southern England linking London to Brighton. It starts at two termini in the capital, and , and the branches from each meet at , from where the route continues southwards via to the coast. The line ...
and is to the north of
Brighton station.
The depot code is BI.
History
The depot was opened in 1848 as a carriage works by the
LB&SCR, being converted in 1933 to an EMU depot by the
Southern Railway. At that time, it had adjoining five and seven-track dead-ended buildings.
In 1987, the depot's allocation included class
421
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,
422
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Year 422 ( CDXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1175 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denominati ...
and
423
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Year 423 ( CDXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Marinianus and Asclepiodotus (or, less frequently, year 1176 ''Ab urbe condita''). ...
EMUs.
Around the same time, the depot was also used to stable locomotives, including classes
09,
33,
47 and
73.
Modernisation resulted in the five-track building being reduced to a four-track from 2002, and the depot was reopened for servicing
Class 377 units in 2006. A mix of
Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Toronto and Berlin. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. ...
and
Southern Railway technicians are based here.
Allocation
The depot's allocation consists of Gatwick Express
Class 387 EMUs and Southern
Class 377 EMUs (subclasses /1 to /4). Southern's former
Class 313 EMUs were also allocated to the depot until their retirement in 2023.
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Railway depots in South East England
Rail transport in East Sussex
Transport in Brighton and Hove
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