Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

Laira T&RSMD
	Looking south from Laira Flyover
Location
Location	Plymouth, United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°22′55″N 4°06′20″W / 50.3819°N 4.1055°W
OS grid	SX503557
Characteristics
Owner	Great Western Railway
Depot code	83D (1948-1963); 84A (1963-1973); LA (1973-present);
Type	Diesel, HST
History
Opened	1901; 1931 Enlarged to replace Millbay shed; 1962 Rebuilt for diesels; 1981 Rebuilt for HSTs
Original	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway; British Railways;

Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Plymouth, Devon, England. The depot is operated by Great Western Railway (GWR) and is where their fleet of Class 802 InterCity Express Trains and remaining Castle Class trains are overhauled. Other trains visit for daily servicing including some operated by CrossCountry.

After sixty years as a steam depot, servicing locomotives used on the Exeter to Plymouth line that runs past the shed as well as local lines, diesels started to arrive in 1958. A diesel depot opened in 1962 and was expanded in 1981 to accommodate the High Speed Trains.

The depot code 'LA' is used to identify rolling stock based there.

^ "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 26 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[1] "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 26 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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