wrote:

Fig wrote:
How on earth did the depot get the name 'North Pole'?

From the nearby North Pole Junction, which is near to North Pole Road,
W10. Many railway junctions are named after nearby landmarks such as
roads.

Thugh one can't help but feel it was called North Pole depot rather
than Scrubs Lane depot because it just sounded so neat - it is after
all the depot on the northern end of the Eurostar operations. Before I
realised there was a North Pole Road I always thought that it was such
abstract reasoning alone that led to the depot's name.

I wonder if the new Temple Mills depot shouldn't also have a more
imaginative, evocative name. The road right outside the depot is Orient
Way, but Orient Way depot is just a little far fetched given the
unlikelyhood of direct E* services from UK to Asia happening anytime
soon! Likewise there's a Perth Road nearby, but Perth depot is equally
ridiculous given the unfortunately remote possibility that that E*
services will ever manage to make it north of Watford let along north
of the border.

So my sensible suggestion for an alternative is Hackney Marsh depot, as
the marshes are famous around the world for their 88 football pitches.

In article ,
Jack Taylor wrote:
wrote:
The depot at North Pole will soon become redundant

What a sad waste - any idea what will happen to all that railway
insfrastructue?

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...ys_611851.hcsp

To summarise: EWS will move from Old Oak Common to part of the North
Pole site; the Bombardier Level 5 depot moves from Ilford to another
part of North Pole (common sense would suggest that that would be the
Ladbroke Grove end, with EWS taking the Acton end - but stranger things
have happened!); the current Old Oak Common site becomes a Crossrail
depot, making the need for a depot at Romford redundant, and also allows
for an expansion of the Heathrow Express/Connect depot.

There is also an argument which suggests that EWS should take the Ladbroke
Grove end, with a direct connection onto the carriage line flyover (with a
reversal), allowing access to the remaining carriage sidings at Old Oak
Common. It would also allow access off the flyover to the relief lines for
Acton Yard and the Greenford loop without interference with the fast
lines. A reversal on the running lines at North Pole Junction and the
painfully slow detour via Willesden SW sidings would be avoided.

David