L2914 - Woodford Halse Motive Power Depot

L2914 - Woodford Halse Motive Power Depot
L2914 - Woodford Halse Motive Power Depot
L2914 - Woodford Halse Motive Power Depot
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Title
L2914 - Woodford Halse Motive Power Depot
Description
L2914 - Photographed around 1900, these are the substantial facilities that could be found at the Great Central's Motive Power Depot at Woodford Halse. Woodford's central location and its convenient links to other railway networks meant that the London Extension transformed this small Northamptonshire village into a thriving railway community. Indeed, the area occupied by the sheds, yards and sidings was probably not that much smaller than the village itself. Returning to the picture, the large gabled building is the carriage and wagon repair shop, immediately to the left of which ran the main line permanent way. Visible on the far right is a section of the loco shed, a still larger structure with provision to house sixty engines. The taller building lying between these two sheds is thought to have been an engineer's machine shop.



British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection






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Maker
S.W.A. Newton
LCC ID. No.
L2914.tif
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Notes
IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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