Crofton 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

Crofton, West Yorkshire Crofton is a village in West Yorkshire, England, about south-east of Wakefield, some to the west of the town of Pontefract, and from the town of Featherstone. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,781. History Crofton ...

, England. The depot is situated on the Wakefield Line and Pontefract Line at the eastern end of ''Crofton Junction'' and is located near the now demolished Crofton railway station. It maintains Class 170 Turbostars for

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;

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, Grand Central and

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store trains overnight for early morning services at the depot.

History

The depot was opened in 2001 by

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. ...

. The depot was upgraded in 2006 and has a 2-road shed and various external sidings with carriage washer and fuelling/CET point. It was used for maintaining Class 170s for

. This has since ceased. The Depot is also a servicing facility for

Trains Yorkshire operations (Leeds, Sheffield and York terminating trains) and Grand Central Yorkshire operations (Bradford terminating trains).

Hull Trains Hull Trains is an open access operator, open-access railway operator in England owned by the multinational transport company FirstGroup. It operates long-distance passenger services between Hull Paragon Interchange, Hull Paragon / Beverley rai ...

used the Depot for servicing their Class 180 when maintenance transferred from Old Oak Common Depot. An additional siding was added to the depot in early/mid 2018 to increase depot stabling capacity resulting from timetable changes. The depot is now owned by

Alstom Alstom SA () is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional ...

after they bought out Bombardier Transportation.

Allocation

As of 2023, the depot has an allocation of Class 170 Turbostars for

. However, Class 220 and Class 221 Voyagers as well as Class 180 Adelantes and Class 185s visit the depot for servicing.

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*{{cite book, title=Railway Depots, year=2010, first1=Paul, last1=Smith, first2=Philip, last2=Stuart, publisher=Ian Allan Ltd., isbn= 9780711034822, oclc=528397749 Railway depots in Yorkshire Rail transport in West Yorkshire TMD