Tyseley TMD

Railway depot in Birmingham, England

In 1987, the depot had an allocation including Class 08 shunting locomotives and Classes 101, 108, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 127 and 128 DMUs. The depot was also a stabling point for Class 20 and 47 locomotives.

With the demise of steam on BR in the summer of 1968, the passenger roundhouse was demolished in the same year, with plans to do similar to the coal stage. However, Patrick Whitehouse the new owner of No.7029 Clun Castle negotiated a lease bid, with plans to adapt it for steam locomotives. This and the fact that Birmingham City Council placed a preservation order on the turntable managed to create a strip of land inside the depot, that today is the Tyseley Locomotive Works.

After the privatisation of British Rail, Tyseley TMD was operated by Central Trains. As well as maintaining Central Trains' Class 150, Class 156, Class 156, Class 158 and Class 170s, it also performed heavy maintenance on fellow National Express operator Wessex Trains’ fleet. It was transferred with the franchise to London Midland in 2007 and West Midlands Trains in 2017. The depot also maintains CrossCountry Class 170s.

On 14 December 2019 Abdul Rehan, a West Midlands Trains driver, died after being caught between two Class 172/3 DMUs that another driver was attempting to couple together. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch determined that WMT had insufficient safe working practices for drivers in depots (especially walking between trains), and also that Rehan had not used the authorised walkway. An inquest in March 2022 returned a verdict of accidental death.