Class 56s at Peterborough Depot
Class 56 104 at the depot at Peterborough 2003
The class 56 above is at the small loco depot at Peterborough next to the station.
The Depot was transferred to EWS on privatisation.
The class 56 has a shed plate which reads 40B. This was Immingham shed.
Class 56 129 was still in Transrail colours at the Peterborough Depot.
Part of the logo was missing but there no EWS logos on this class 56.
EWS class 56 032 at the Peterborough Depot
The class 56 has a shed plate which reads 40B which was Immingham shed.
Class 56 109 has had the load haul logo removed. It is at the Peterborough Depot and is under the Spittle road bridge
EWS class 56 158 Barry Needham at the Peterborough Depot
Class 56051 under the Spittel road bridge in 2003
PETERBOROUGH DEPOT
This small diesel depot is next to and under Spittle road bridge is just to the north of Peterborough railway station. It had replaced the very large New England MPD when that closed, after the end of steam at Peterborough. The class 08s and DMUs and class 31s used around Peterborough had been all been transferred away to the March MPD at Whitemoor.
To save these and engines having to go to all the way to March for fuel and minor jobs a very small sub shed and refuelling point was built near to Spittle bridge just to the north east of the station. This Depot was used for stabling and the day to day maintaining of these locomotives. It also did every day minor repairs.
When March MPD closed this depot took over the few EWS engines from March. GBRf having its own Depot at New England in Peterborough.
