Fratton Traincare Depot

Fratton Traincare Depot
Location
LocationPortsmouth, Hampshire, England
Coordinates50°47′43″N 1°04′10″W / 50.7953°N 1.0695°W / 50.7953; -1.0695
OS gridSU655000
Characteristics
Depot code
  • FRA
  • FTON[1]
  • 71D (1948-1954)
  • 70F (1954-1963)
  • Uncoded SP (1963-1973)
  • FR (1973-)[2]
TypeDMU, EMU
History
Opened1891

Fratton Traincare Depot is a traction maintenance depot in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The depot occupies the site alongside Fratton railway station, with two of the sidings right next to Goldsmith Avenue. It has a carriage washer and is the fuelling point for the Class 158 and Class 159 DMUs.

The depot has a train shed with two pitted roads for maintenance of rolling stock. Class 444 and Class 450 EMUs berth overnight there, and there are stabling sidings and bay platforms at Portsmouth & Southsea station all of which come under the control of the depot at night.

Trains stabled here are generally Class 444 and Class 450 Desiro EMUs, but Class 158 and Class 159 DMUs are occasionally also stabled here. Great Western Railway and Southern stop at Fratton, and can stop their Class 158 DMUs and Class 377 EMUs in the depot if need be.

  1. ^ Marsden 1987, pp. 50–51
  2. ^ "The all-time guide to UK Shed and Depot Codes" (PDF). TheRailwayCentre.com. 5 May 2006. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)