Claisebrook railway depot

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Claisebrook railway depot
Claisebrook Railcar Depot.jpg
Overview
Location Kensington Street, East Perth, Western Australia
Operator Transperth Trains
Type Cleaning, storage, maintenance, upgrades and repairs
Details
Rolling stock Transperth A-series, Transperth B-series (occasionally), and Transwa Australind railcars (during servicing); over 50 trains stored
Routes Armadale line and Midland line

Claisebrook railway depot (also known as Claisebrook railcar depot) is a Transperth Trains depot adjacent to Claisebrook station, at 122 Kensington Street, East Perth. When trains leave this depot, they connect with the Midland, Fremantle, Armadale, or Joondalup lines.[1]

In the 1940s, Claisebrook road depot referred to the then tramway depot adjoining the railway property in East Perth [2] and much earlier in the 1860s the term Claisebrook depot referred to the convict depot [3]

Function

The railway depot's primary purpose is to service, refurbish and upgrade Transperth's A-Series railcars. The newer B-series railcars may also be stabled at Claisebrook railway depot for work that cannont be done at Mandurah or Nowergup at anytime and for events such as the Australian Football League games on weekends at Patersons Stadium. The depot has also recently started serving as the facility to maintain and refurbish the diesel-electric Transwa Australind railcars.

Facilities

Claisebrook railway depot has facilities to store, maintain and clean a large fleet of railcars.

File:Transperth Claisebrook Railway Depot Night.jpg
A-series trains stored at the Claisebrook railway depot.

Notes

  1. http://innopac.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b2428544#.UJM4UYX6Ro4 – Aerial view, railcar depot on left hand lower part of photograph
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