page_title: Heaton TMD
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Heaton TMD / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Ex-NER Electric locomotive at Heaton Locomotive Depot. Parked outside Heaton Sheds is No. 26500, one of the two unique 640 hp 0-4+4-0 overhead/3rd rail-equipped locomotives, used on the Quayside Branch from Trafalgar Yard near Manors (Newcastle). They were built by BTH/Brush in 7/1905, numbered 1 and 2 by the LNER (Nos. 6480/1 in 1946), then 26500/1 by BR; they were withdrawn in 9/64.
context_page_description: Heaton TMD is a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in the Heaton area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, it is located next to the East Coast Main Line, around 2 miles east of Newcastle station. Heaton was a sub-shed of Gateshead between 1963 and 1967.
context_section_description: Originally built by the North Eastern Railway to provide steam locomotives serving principally the extensive Heaton marshalling yards and freight traffic, but also a considerable proportion of main line and local passenger traffic from Newcastle Central.
  The location meant that it provided motive power to the .75 miles (1.21 km) and steep Riverside Branch. Unliked by crews due to the need to pass through three tunnels and the resultant toxic smoke in their cabs, in 1905 it was electrified using 750 VDC technology, with power supplied via both overhead catenary and, within the tunnels, third-rail. Both of the BTH/Brush 640 hp (BR Class ES1) locomotives were based at Heaton, designed as a Bo-Bo with central cab. They worked from the shed until 1967.
  Coded 52B in the NE Region (Newcastle District) under British Railways, in 1954 it had an allocation of 95 locomotives, comprising:16x 4-6-2; 17x 2-6-2; 1x 4-4-0; 14x 2-6-0 (9 LNE + 5 LMS-type); 14x 0-6-0; 12x 2-6-2T; 1x 0-6-2T; 18x 0-6-0T; and 2x ES1's.
caption: Ex-NER No.26500/BR Class ES1 at Heaton Shed
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