Comments on: Exmouth Junction Railway Depot – Exeter

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:54:02 +0000

Great shots there, shame it was pulled down they someone could of turned that run down depo into a privet railway depo or something… just a shame that they pulled it all down, i can remember it looming over co-op (now Morrison) every week when I did my shopping

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:52:32 +0000

there goes the neighbourhood

By: Dave Tozer

Dave Tozer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:20:50 +0000

Following the demolition of the C&Works(later On Track Plant Machine Depot) the site was taken over by Murphys. It has been used as a storage area for cabins/equipment used in connection with the GSMR project for Newtwork Rail. In deed a mast can be seen sited opposite to Exmouth Junction Signal Box.

In recent weeks the former Concrete Works/Coal Concentration Depot site has been cleared of vegetation. A firm called West Country Storage Solutions have moved in. Numerous large blue containers are on site all moved not by rail but by road.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:36:31 +0000

Things are happening. Over the last four years, the yard has been going back to nature. Today, however, we looked out and saw that half of the yard has been stripped out, leaving several acres of bare concrete. It’s totally weird, the site has become an echo chamber. You can still hear the voices of beered-up punters from the ‘Stoke Arms’ as they stagger home down the half-mile strip that is Prince Charles Road, which runs parallel to the yard on the opposite side of the valley, but all of a sudden those voices have a reverb (double echo) type of effect as the sound bounces off the vast, bare concrete space that has been revealed.
I’ve lived next to this vast, abandoned site for a few years now, and it would really p*** me off if suddenly it reverted back to a noisy, crashing, clanking great railway plant depot. That’s just my opinion, but I realise it was there for 115 years before we bought our house so I guess I can’t grumble:-)
anyone know what’s going on? something is being done in Exmouth Junction…..I have e-mailed Network Rail to try to find out.

By: Paula Milton

Paula Milton — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:15:45 +0000

Hi DAB@derelicte, Many thanks for your reply. What a pity, It could have been a good site. One question,is the track layout still in place, Many thanks Paula

By: DAB @ derelicte

DAB @ derelicte — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:11 +0000

Paula – it was demolished in 2008.

By: Paula Milton

Paula Milton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:05:46 +0000

What is the current state & use of Exmouth Junction Shed site, if not in use is it salvagable, to restore to use as a prospective MPD, servicing Mainline Specials & as a Base

By: Alvan Spicer

Alvan Spicer — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:30:17 +0000

the whole site has now been pulled down all apart from the water tower base.

By: simon pearson

simon pearson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:21:23 +0000

Im not sure what they are doing either, but there is no chance of housing being built there.. Network rail applied to the rail regulator to sell it but there were objections from a few of the train operating companies, on the basis that the site was of strategic importance. With the much talked about re-doubling of the Exeter- Waterloo line it is probable that the site will be used as a track maintenance and storage yard. It is a complete mess there, if only the railways hadn’t been buggered in the 60′s this site would have still been a fully working yard.

By: Dave Roberts

Dave Roberts — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:58:44 +0000

What a mess! I worked here in the early eighties as an apprentice and know every inch of the place. The small plant shed (ODM) I helped set up as it was refurbished from its former derelict state! Back then it was state of the art but look at it now! I even remember working on that heating boiler. Also of interest is the c&w supervisors elevated office I remember it well. Think the thing I most remember was the noise! defening with all the rivit guns! Thanks for the memories