Finsbury Park TMD

Finsbury Park TMD was a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in London, England. It was the first purpose built main line diesel locomotive depot opened in this country and it was fully commissioned in April 1960 ( Allan Baker - "Deltics At Work" - P23 - ISBN 0-7110-1536-8). It was downgraded in June 1981 and closed in October 1983 (Deltics At Work P97). Finsbury Park was a steam shed under British Railways with the depot code 34G; the depot code of the diesel depot under BR was FP. The nearest railway station is Finsbury Park. The site is now covered in residential flats which can be seen to the SW of Finsbury Park station.