…at St. Leonards depot.
We are taking bookings for our English Electric Echo railtour to Skegness on 18 September 2010.
On Saturday 19 June 2010 it worked our West Somerset Limited railtour to Minehead. An illustrated news article depicts aspects of the day’s journey.
Motor coaches 60116+60118 travelled to Hornsey depot on Wednesday 16 June 2010, to visit the wheel-lathe.
The DEMU Diary contains details of all workings on the main line since March 2003. See also the HDL Railtour archive.
Our train has six vehicles re-certified for main-line use, including the CEP coach and Buffet car. See the Current fleet status of CDL for further details.
The unit’s formation at the depot is:
[Ashford end] 60116 Mountfield - 60529 - 70262 - 69337 - 60501 - 60118 Tunbridge Wells [Bexhill end]
News articles which are fresh, still being updated, or still current and relevant, are linked below. Older news articles, all closed, have been placed in the News Archive.
Motor coaches visit Hornsey depot (more photos added on 9 July 2010)
West Somerset Limited railtour, 19 June 2010 (more photos added on 25 June 2010)
Severn Explorer railtour, 24 April 2010 (many photos added on 5 June 2010)
Solent Sentinel railtour, 20 March 2010 (more photos added on 3 April 2010)
Comings & goings at St. Leonards Depot (part 2) (more photos added on 3 April 2010)
Pre-railtour test run to Tonbridge, 17 March 2010 (opened on 18 March 2010)
Central Door Locking (updated on 18 March 2010)
Some of our non mainline-certified vehicles (opened on 22 February 2010)
Olympia Express special excursion, 19 December 2009 (opened on 2 February 2010)
Christmas Scholar railtour, 5 December 2009 (opened on 6 December 2009)
Driver-Training Run, 10 November 2009 (created on 15 November 2009)
Worcester Leveller railtour, 3 October 2009 (modified on 9 October 2009)
Restoration of trailer car 60528 (updated on 5 March 2009)
Restoration of motor coach 60019 (more photos added on 19 March 2008)
On-Train Monitoring Recorders (updated on 19 March 2008)
Older news articles, all closed, have been placed in the News Archive.
Since 18 May 2003, St. Leonards Depot (leased and operated by HDL’s sister company St. Leonards Railway Engineering Limited) has been playing an increasingly active role as an operational railway depot, dealing as it does with the day-to-day fuelling, cleaning and examination of Southern’s fleet of DMUs, among other tasks. As it has thus become in effect a “main line” depot, with trains arriving and departing from/to the Network Rail network at all hours, we regret that casual visits are not possible. We thank you in advance for your understanding.
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This striking study by Andy Armitage was taken on 1 March 2007 just before Motor Coach Hastings led two cars of 1001 out of the depot on “The Soap Run”, delivering supplies to [South Eastern]’s carriage-washer near Bopeep Junction. That little outing was also a test-run for Motor Coach Mountfield following completion of modifications in preparation for the fitting of CDL/OTMR. In the background can be seen Motor Coach Tunbridge Wells, Ex-4TC Driving Trailer 76215, and [GBRF]’s Electro-Diesel loco no. 73 205.