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units were also allocated to
Springhead and then Botanic Gardens in 1958 although all units had been transferred away by 1960. Three- and four-car Class 108 units were also allocated to the area working the Hull to York and Hull to Scarborough routes. They remained in service locally until the 1980s.
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During 1956/57 the shed was comprehensively rebuilt of the coming dieselisation of services. Number 1 shed was completely re-roofed whilst number 2 shed had its turntable removed and was reconfigured for Diesel
Multiple Unit (DMU) operation. The new shed officially re-opened on 13 June 1959, at which
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DMUs were allocated to the depot for almost their whole existence and employed on services from Hull to
Doncaster, Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds. Introduced in 1960 they were reformed in 1979 with the addition of Class 123 units from the Western Region for a new timetable that year. The units were
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units were allocated to the depot from
November 1958 having been transferred from Springhead which was acting as the local DMU depot whilst Botanic Gardens was being built. These operated the local Hornsea and Withernsea branches and on bank holidays it was not unknown for eight-car formations to be
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Towards the end of the century, passenger traffic was still growing and the NER decided to add two platforms to the north side of the station. Replacement facilities were provided at
Botanic Gardens which opened in 1901. The original shed was demolished in 1901 to make way for the new platforms but
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Following changes to passenger traffic – the replacement of locomotive hauled services and loss of parcels and newspaper traffic, the remaining Class 03 shunters were transferred away from Hull in 1982. This was also the year that rail traffic to
Alexandra Dock ceased. The same year the BR regions
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in
Yorkshire, England. As built it was one of the principal steam engine sheds in the Hull area, Botanic Gardens was the one closest to the main Hull Paragon station and its locomotives were responsible for working passenger services in the area. This entry also covers the engine sheds in the
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and to do that it wanted to add more platforms where the current sheds were located on the north side. Preparation of the site began in 1898 and the entrance lines were actually approved in that year. Another factor driving the new depot was the increase in locomotive sizes from short 2-4-0
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By the late 1850s the shed was struggling to cope with traffic levels and an additional shed was authorised in 1865 and opened for traffic in 1867. This was a square covered roundhouse with a turntable and 20 radiating roads. The shed was located just south of St
Stephens Square.
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The new station at
Paragon was provided with a three road engine shed with each road being approximately 125 feet long. A 45-foot diameter turntable was provided to enable arriving locomotives to be turned. These facilities were located on the north side of the station.
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Following nationalisation the shed became part of the North
Eastern region of British Railways, and under the British Railways shed numbering scheme, Botanic Gardens (Hull) was allocated the code 53B until 1960 and then after that 50B as part of York district.
278:, the shed had three turntables – one was provided at the Paragon station end for visiting locomotives to be turned quickly for return trips. The large shed building consisted of two separate 55-foot (17 m) turntables with radiating stabling roads.
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engine shed in 1970, its remaining allocation was transferred to Botanic Gardens although the former engine shed site at Hull Alexandra Dock was still used for stabling shunting locomotives employed in the docks.
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Metropolitan Cammell Units were allocated to Springhead and thence Botanic Gardens in the late 1950s. They were still allocated to the shed in the mid 1980s where some four-car sets were reduced to three-cars."
516:(Total Operations Planning System) in 1973, Botanic Gardens locomotives and multiple units were allocated the code BG. 1973 also saw the closure of Goole engine shed and the transfer of its five remaining
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units. These works involved constructing new buildings, installing new equipment and building additional infrastructure to increase capacity at the site, and was part of a plan to relieve pressure on
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Paragon station opened in May 1848 replacing an earlier terminus at Manor House although this continued as a railway station until 1854. This station had workshops and an engine shed belonging to the
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the NER became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 1 January 1923. The table below shows the allocated locomotives on that date – all locomotives were of NER origin.
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announced that they were to invest £3.5 million to increase the capacity and enhance the facilities at Botanic Gardens so that the depot could become home to operator's
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Following the closure of the former Hull and Barnsley Railway Hull Cannon Street station in 1925, Botanic Gardens received an allocation of 4-4-0 locomotives from
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Generally, Botanic Gardens locomotives worked as far afield as Sheffield Victoria, Doncaster, York, Scarborough, Leeds and the branches to Hornsea and Withernsea.
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In 1927 the shed received its first allocation of Sentinel steam rail cars and locally named examples included Valiant, Tally-Ho and Liberty.
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The site continued to be active with minor scheduled maintenance, stabling, fuelling, internal and external cleaning of Arriva Rail North,
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During 1955 one of the 55-foot turntables was replaced by a 60-foot (18 m) version and years later in 2005 this was bought by the
498:
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453:(Hull), thus concentrating all passenger working engines on one site. These locomotives continued to work services over the HBR.
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whether the 1867 shed was demolished at this time is not known (the land was not required for the expansion of the station).
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shunters was allocated to York. Around this time other locomotive classes usually stabled at the depot included Classes
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In October 1946 the association with the LNER rail cars ended (the year before all of these vehicles were withdrawn).
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used on these lines. They were employed on other East Yorkshire lines from the late 1950s until the early 1980s.
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On 19 January 1987, the shed was reduced to a fuelling point and on paper its remaining allocation of
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In 1932 a concrete coaling bunker was added to the depot improving the previous coaling facilities.
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class dating from 1874 – used on special duties such as hauling the local inspection saloon.
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The work to return the depot to full TMD status was completed in December 2022.
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ran the depot between 1997 and 2004 after which the site was operated by
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were disbanded and the depot became part of the Provincial sector (later
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684:. 5 May 2006. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013
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Webster, Neil; Greengrass, Robert; Greaves, Simon (1987).
1080:. Motive power recognition. Vol. 6. Ian Allan Ltd.
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most of which would have worked freight into the area.
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point its last steam locomotives were transferred to
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822:"Class 105/6 Cravens 2 & 3-car DMUs – batch 1"
1055:"Botanic Gardens depot upgraded". Network News.
675:"The all-time guide to UK Shed and Depot Codes"
271:locomotives to longer 4-4-0 and 4-6-0 classes.
1211:Rail transport in the East Riding of Yorkshire
1061:. No. 973. 28 December 2022. p. 10.
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1151:LNER Locomotive Allocations 1st January 1923
627:to take over the operation on 1 March 2020.
285:London and North Eastern Railway (1923–1947)
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783:"Mainline Turntable for Buckfastleigh"
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980:"Transformation of rail in the north"
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341:This was a unique one off locomotive
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1206:Rail transport in Kingston upon Hull
592:The privatisation era (1996–present)
234:area that preceded Botanic Gardens.
986:. 27 February 2015. Archived from
532:DMU allocations at Botanic Gardens
14:
497:in 1967 the depot became part of
274:Named after the closed (in 1887)
262:Botanic Gardens opens (1901–1923)
1201:London and North Eastern Railway
238:Earlier engine sheds (1848–1901)
499:British Railways Eastern Region
493:Following the abolition of the
1030:"Northern looks to the future"
876:"Class 101 initial operations"
1:
520:shunters to Botanic Gardens.
480:Buckfastleigh railway station
31:
1105:British Rail Depot Directory
849:"Class 101 later operations"
466:British Railways (1948–1996)
30:Botanic Gardens rail depot,
1186:Railway depots in Yorkshire
1153:. Challenger Publications.
1149:Yeadon, W. B. (1996).
1134:. Challenger Publications.
1130:Yeadon, W. B. (1995).
568:Downgrade to fuelling point
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1196:North Eastern Railway (UK)
1076:Marsden, Colin J. (1987).
551:Derby works built two-car
223:traction maintenance depot
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702:: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
631:Return to full TMD status
504:Following the closure of
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596:Following privatisation
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412:Branch line locomotives
398:Branch line locomotives
621:operator of last resort
598:Arriva Trains Northern
553:British Rail Class 108
545:British Rail Class 101
537:British Rail Class 105
451:Springhead engine shed
276:Hull Botanical Gardens
244:Hull and Selby Railway
1132:More railways of Hull
789:. South Devon Railway
301:(LNER classification)
682:TheRailwayCentre.com
609:TransPennine Express
495:North Eastern region
268:Hull Paragon Station
190:North Eastern region
787:South Devon Railway
564:withdrawn in 1984.
219:Botanic Gardens TMD
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1191:Kingston upon Hull
604:until April 2016.
559:The Trans-Pennine
478:for future use at
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83:53.7484°N 0.3614°W
55:Kingston upon Hull
617:Arriva Rail North
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741:Yeadon 1996
729:Yeadon 1995
717:Yeadon 1995
613:Hull Trains
506:Dairycoates
488:Dairycoates
306:Arrangement
86: /
62:Coordinates
35: 2017
1180:Categories
658:References
543:Similarly
131:BG (1973–)
128:Depot code
71:53°44′54″N
1169:867918574
1078:BR Depots
940:2 January
913:2 January
886:2 January
859:2 January
832:2 January
793:3 January
688:27 August
645:Class 155
641:Class 170
561:Class 124
311:allocated
185:BR region
74:0°21′41″W
57:, England
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1096:18685680
698:cite web
574:Class 08
518:Class 03
314:Remarks
164:Original
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151:History
139:Steam,
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335:4-4-0
322:4-4-0
319:D17/1
304:Wheel
299:Class
221:is a
1165:OCLC
1155:ISBN
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1082:ISBN
1042:2022
1016:2022
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