page_title: Birkenhead Mollington Street TMD
section_title: Construction to nationalisation
hierarchical_section_title: Birkenhead Mollington Street TMD / History / Construction to nationalisation
caption_attribution_description: English: Birkenhead Locomotive Depot.: ex-North London 0-6-0T with other engines outside the LMS part of the Depot. Ex-North London Class 75 2F 0-6-0T No. 27522 (still in LMS livery) rests between other engines on a Sunday in 1948. A large number of engines were required for shunting in the many Yards around the Birkenhead Docks. This engine looks its age of nearly 70 years but later went back to London and lasted another nine years.
context_page_description: Birkenhead Mollington Street was a former Traction Maintenance Depot located at Mollington Street in Birkenhead, England, on the Birkenhead Dock Branch railway. Although never directly connected by rail, the depot was situated less than 200 m from Birkenhead Central railway station. The depot serviced steam and subsequently diesel locomotives until 1985, when it was closed and demolished. As of 2018, the site of the depot is still disused.
context_section_description: The Birkenhead Railway was formed on 1 August 1859 as a result of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Railway merging with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. The new company was originally called the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway, but in 1859 shortened its name to The Birkenhead Railway. Taken over on 1 January 1860, it became a joint railway owned and operated by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the Great Western Railway (GWR), becoming a joint railway.
  The new partners need new and better servicing facilities for their fleets, and so built the new joint-depot in 1878. The shed consisted of two separate but conjoined 8-road straight sheds:
  LNWR: to the north, an 8-road pitched-roof shed. Coaling stage to the west, turntable at the shed throat
  GWR: to the south and closest to the running lines, an 8-road north light pattern roofed shed. Coaling stage to the west, turntable to the south on an entrance siding. Originally coded BHD, it later became 24
caption: North London Railway Class 75 in 1948.
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