wrote:
The depot at North Pole will soon become redundant

What a sad waste - any idea what will happen to all that railway
insfrastructue?

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/group...ys_611851.hcsp

To summarise: EWS will move from Old Oak Common to part of the North Pole
site; the Bombardier Level 5 depot moves from Ilford to another part of
North Pole (common sense would suggest that that would be the Ladbroke Grove
end, with EWS taking the Acton end - but stranger things have happened!);
the current Old Oak Common site becomes a Crossrail depot, making the need
for a depot at Romford redundant, and also allows for an expansion of the
Heathrow Express/Connect depot.