Air Ministry Works Department - Works Repair Depots

The rail line passing the depot was built before the depot as shown in this 1932 map (Courtesy of Old Maps website)

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

The rail line passing the depot was built before the depot as shown in this 1932 map (Courtesy of Old Maps website)

Thanks Peter. That's the second railway line noted within the last seven days that (part) disappeared pre Beeching.

Callerton near Woolsington , 26 January 2018 ;


The Wheat Sheaf Hotel is now part of the Premier Inn .


The railway line now forms part of the Tyne and Wear Metro system and terminates one stop down at Newcastle Airport .
This station is Callereton Parkway .






Callerton Cottages next to what was Callerton railway station .




I'm not sure if this wall was part of the depot boundary wall ?


The site of the camp on Middle Drive as seen in Post#89 by PETERTHEEATER can still be discerned by the surviving access road and easily seen on GE .

We have a thread on Kidlington here.
www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/o...depot-location#56337

and Carlton Scroop
www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/l...roop-raf-depot#56289

and Barnwell
www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/forum/n...well-raf-depot#56298
Not to be merged as it will screw up post numbering.

Reference the original post.

RICHARD AUSTEN

Richard, can you put up a list of those depots that have NOT been located please. There cannot be many left and I would like to see the final few identified.

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

Reference the original post.

RICHARD AUSTEN

Richard, can you put up a list of those depots that have NOT been located please. There cannot be many left and I would like to see the final few identified.

Coming very very soon !

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

DINAS

Likely location of the Dinas depot:

SH 4773 5872

wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=5...grat=None&rgrat=None

Quite agree, Peter.

This was AMWD Depot No. 61 under Area No. 6, Market Drayton. It was classed as a minor depot.

The postal address was Pwllheli, quite some way away to the south, but, the listed station was Dinas Junction.

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

Reference the original post.

RICHARD AUSTEN

Richard, can you put up a list of those depots that have NOT been located please. There cannot be many left and I would like to see the final few identified.

I'm hoping that the following list is correct and shows sites that require further investigation. Forgive me if sites appearing here have previously been identified, but, I think that it is substantially fairly sound:-

Ingham, Suffolk
Ashford, Kent
Darlington, Durham
Filton, Gloucestershire
Havant, Hampshire
Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Tranent, Midlothian
Sulby, Isle of Man
Antrim, Co antrim
Dungannon, Co Tyrone

Ingham, Suffolk

This was AMWD Depot No. 71, under Area No 7 Newmarket.

It was classed as a major depot. NGR TL 856708. Please see wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Finer detail from Old-Maps:

CHIPPENHAM, Wiltshire

This was Depot No. 122, under Works Area No. 12, Bristol. In its time, it featured as both a major and minor depot.

The station listed was Chippenham. The postal address was Pew Hill. NGR possibly ST 922747, or, 924745.

Ignoring the large Westinghouse Factory to the south of Pew Hill, there is a likely area just to the left of the marker Pew Hill, but, this was possibly a small housing estate, please see wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

This highlights the area a little more (from Old-maps)