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Original Text (Annotation: EPW058334 / 605607)

' Servicing point where steam locomotives from incoming passenger trains were turned and watered, ready for their next duty. It avoided the need to run 'light engine' right out to the main depot at Old Oak Common. With the demise of steam in the 1960s this facility became redundant '

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