Old Oak Common TMD was a traction maintenance depot located west of London Paddington, in Old Oak Common. The depot codes were OC for the diesel depot and OO for the carriage shed. In steam days the shed code was 81A.
First Great Western InterCity 125 leaving empty stock for service to London Paddington.
GWR 4700 Class 2-8-0 express freight loco 4706 being serviced at Old Oak Common on 15 December 1963
Steam locomotives near the coaling plant, September 1956
The first-of-class (Class 52) D1000 Western Enterprise, inside the roundhouse in 1964
London Paddington station
Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services provided by the Great Western Railway and its successors since 1838. Much of the main line station dates from 1854 and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. As of the 2022–23 Office of Rail & Road Statistics, it is the second busiest station in the United Kingdom, after London Liverpool Street, with 59.2 million entries and exits.
The Victorian train shed at Paddington in October 2018
The layout of Paddington Station in 1888
Paddington Station in the Victorian era
The Praed Street facade of the Great Western Hotel (now the Hilton London Paddington)
