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Croxley Green Light Maintenance Depot

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93: 55: 304: 190:. The depot tracks left the depot in the westward direction, so empty stock workings from Watford and London would carry along a headshunt before reversing into the car shed. The 383: 361: 253: 337: 296: 442: 183: 202:
The depot opened in 1917, around the time of the DC electrification of the line to Watford, Rickmansworth and Croxley Green.
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flowed under the railway line on two bridges carrying the main line and the depot throat tracks.
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The depot was near the triangular junction where the line to the since closed
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The depot should not be confused with a proposal to build a depot for the
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Before its closure in 1985, the depot's allocation consisted of
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between Moor Park and Croxley stations, on a different site.
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Disused railway maintenance depot in Croxley, Watford
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Croxley
Watford
51°38′48″N 0°23′48″W / 51.6467°N 0.3968°W / 51.6467; -0.3968
OS grid
TQ110954
British Rail
EMU
traction maintenance depot
Croxley
Watford
Watford DC line
Croxley Green station
Watford and Rickmansworth Railway
Watford DC line
River Colne
Class 313
Class 501 EMUs
London Underground
Bakerloo line
Watford Junction
Metropolitan line
Grand Union Canal
"The all-time guide to UK Shed and Depot Codes"
cite web
link
"Derelict Places - Croxley Green"
Archived
Real Railway Tales
ISBN
978-0-7509-5702-1

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