page_title: Exeter TMD
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Exeter TMD / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Exeter St David's Locomotive Depot. View northwards to the Shed, which was relatively small with only four roads. Coded 83C in the Newton Abbot Division, it was situated behind the west side of St David's Station and had an allocation of 33 in 1950, which were engaged mainly locally there being only four 4-6-0s on the list: one of these, No. 5976 'Ashwicke Hall' features on the right. The Depot closed to steam on 14/10/63, but has remained as a Diesel stabling point.
context_page_description: Exeter Traction Maintenance Depot is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom and is next to the city's main St Davids station. The depot is operated by Great Western Railway.
  There are 12 roads, the maintenance building itself can hold 2 sets of 2 × 23 m vehicles. Behind a remaining wall from the previous Steam shed is where the Civil Shed is located, and the Premier shed is nearest the station.
context_section_description: An engine shed was opened at Exeter by the Bristol and Exeter Railway when it opened the line to here in 1844. A second facility was added a few years later by the South Devon Railway and the two were combined under the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1876. The Bristol and Exeter had been worked by the GWR until 1849 but then purchased its own locomotives. Temporary workshops for these were built at Exeter but a permanent facility at Bristol was opened in 1851.
  When British Railways introduced new shed codes in 1950, Exeter-based locomotives carried an oval cast plate with the code '83C'. The last locomotives based here were sent elsewhere from 14 October 1963, but the shed area was kept as a fueling and stabling point for locomotives and diesel multiple units (DMUs) working in the area.
  From 29 December 1976 it was recognised as a depot again, even though no locomotives were allocated there at the time, and given a new code 'EX'. The shed was used for many years without a roof, but in 1980 a new covered maintenance area was built. New facilities were provided at the depot in 2011, including a new fueling point, and also jacks so that DMUs do not have to be sent empty to Bristol when they require lifting.
caption: Exeter St David's Locomotive Depot 12 April 1953
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