Crewe Electric TMD (officially named ''Crewe IEMD'' – International Electric 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 ...

for AC electric and diesel-electric locomotives; it is operated currently by

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. The depot is situated to the north-west of

Crewe railway station Crewe railway station serves the railway town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England. It opened in 1837 and is one of the most historically significant railway stations in the world.Chester Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, close to the England–Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement in the borough of Cheshire West an ...

railway line, opposite

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. Road access is from Wistaston Road.

Depot plaque

In 1987,

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introduced depot plaques on its locomotives; those allocated to Crewe IEMD carried a plaque depicting an eagle.

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*Depot Director
West Coast (Internet Archive)
*A
overhead view
of the depot.

is the long, rectangular building and Crewe Electric is on the branch of tracks to the south. Railway depots in England Rail transport in Cheshire {{England-rail-transport-stub

Depot plaque

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