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🚂✨ The Lost Locomotive Shed of Camden 1B ✨🚂

Step back into the steam age of London’s railways and uncover the forgotten story of Camden Motive Power Depot, better known by enthusiasts as shed 1B.

Just beyond Euston Station, Camden 1B was one of the most important locomotive depots on the West Coast Main Line. It opened in 1837, when the London & Birmingham Railway first carved its way into the capital. Trains faced the notorious Camden Bank incline, so steep that in its earliest years they had to be rope-hauled up the gradient by powerful underground stationary engines. This extraordinary method only lasted until 1844, when more advanced locomotives took over, but its legacy remains hidden beneath the streets of Camden in the form of Grade II listed winding engine vaults*.

By 1847, the site had been redeveloped into two great sheds: a freight roundhouse to the north, which today survives as the world-famous Roundhouse arts venue, and a vast passenger shed to the south, dedicated to servicing express engines running in and out of Euston. Through the days of the LNWR, the LMS, and later British Railways, Camden grew into a hive of activity.

At its peak in the 1930s, following a major LMS rebuild in 1932, Camden 1B became the beating heart of express passenger power. Here you could find the LMS’s most prestigious locomotives: the Royal Scots, the Jubilees, the mighty Princess Royals, and of course the Coronation Class Pacifics. For generations of trainspotters, Camden was a dream location—rows of polished express engines simmering side by side, waiting to thunder northwards on famous trains like the Royal Scot and the Caledonian.

But as with so much of Britain’s railway history, Camden 1B’s glory days were short-lived. The modernisation plan of the 1960s, along with the West Coast electrification scheme, swept away steam power in favour of electric and diesel traction. Steam at Camden ended in September 1963, and though the shed lingered briefly as a diesel point, the entire depot was demolished by 1966.

So what remains of this once-mighty steam stronghold? Surprisingly, quite a lot. The Roundhouse stands proudly as one of the UK’s most iconic arts venues, its circular cast-iron structure a living link to railway history. The underground rope-haulage vaults are still there too, protected as historic monuments and offering a rare glimpse into the earliest years of rail transport. And while the great passenger shed of Camden 1B is long gone, much of its footprint remains in use as carriage sidings and service tracks, still echoing the site’s railway past.

Today, the area around Chalk Farm and Camden Town may be better known for markets and music, but hidden among the modern infrastructure lies the memory of a depot that once symbolised the power, ambition, and romance of Britain’s steam railway age.

Join us as we explore the history, the downfall, and the surviving traces of Camden 1B, one of London’s most legendary lost locomotive sheds.

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