Craigentinny TMD
Craigentinny Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway depot in the Craigentinny area of Edinburgh, Scotland. The depot is operated by Hitachi Rail with a depot code of EC.
The depot opened in 1904, as a carriage sidings and was home to InterCity 125 HSTs operated by London North Eastern Railway until 31st December 2019. It does however still maintain CrossCountry InterCity 125 sets overnight. It also services InterCity 225 sets for London North Eastern Railway, Class 220/221 Voyagers for CrossCountry and Class 350 for TransPennine Express. Hitachi Rail now undertake maintenance on London North Eastern Railway Class 800s and 801s, Abellio ScotRail Class 385s and TransPennine Express Class 802s. It also maintains Class 73s for the Caledonian Sleeper.
The site comprises 3 maintenance sheds, two of which are supplied with 25,000 volts overhead wires, and a smaller repair shed for shorter trains and locomotives. There are a number of storage and stabling sidings which are not covered.
On 11 November 2018 Hitachi Rail took over the operation of Craigentinny Depot from London North Eastern Railway.
Craigentinny also operates a wheel lathe at its Portobello Edinburgh site which turns out tyre damage on rail vehicle wheels for many rail operators.
