Work begins on new £100m Shipley electric train depot
A former scrapyard next to the train station is being redeveloped
WORK on a £100 million rail depot on a huge Shipley site has begun.
The electric train care depot was announced by then rail minister Huw Merriman in March 2024, and will be built next to Shipley rail station, on the former Crossley Evans scrapyard site.
Since the plans were announced the former scrapyard has been cleared and the land prepared for the development of the huge development, which will bring 90 jobs to the town when it is completed in 2027.
The depot will see electric trains repaired, maintained, and stored in Shipley instead of the Neville Hill depot in East Leeds, which will temporarily shut as part of upcoming Transpennine route work.
When Neville Hill re-opens, the electric train depot will remain in Shipley.
Work has now started on the site in earnest, with huge construction vehicles now working on the site and new signage installed informing residents of the work.
Eventually the site will be home to a 148.5 metre by 41.9 metre maintenance building, an under-frame cleaning facility, a carriage wash machine, and a gatehouse building.
The depot will be operational 24 hours a day throughout the week and weekends.