The HS2 High Speed Train could help create 100 new jobs in Dumfries and Galloway if a proposed ‘Stabling’ Facility near Gretna goes ahead.
The Minister of State is minded to include a train stabling facility at Annandale,
Dumfries and Galloway to stable and carry out light maintenance on High Speed
trains serving the north west of England and Scotland.
The site of the proposed train stabling facility at Annandale is farmland adjacent to the
WCML and near the A74(M). Landscape and visual impacts associated with the
stabling facility would occur as a result of a number of buildings at the site, including a
train maintenance shed and earthworks for the stabling facility and habitat planting
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The site would perform the following functions:
● stabling trains overnight;
● internal and external cleaning;
● light servicing, inspection and maintenance;
● training and meeting facilities; and
● equipment spares storage facilities.
The proposed train stabling facility would include:
● 14 stabling slides, that can each accommodate two 200m trains;
● two connections to the existing WCML to the south for trains to enter and leave in
quick succession;
● one connection to the existing WCML to the north for empty stock movements to
Scottish termini, which would join the southern connection to form a loop;
● automatic carriage wash machine;
● overhead catenary system and power substation;
● waste water treatment plant;
● offce and welfare building; and
● car parking and a maintenance shed for undertaking light maintenance.
