Bescot TMD, seen here, used to be absolutely packed with

locomotives undergoing fueling and maintenance - how things have changed! It is now empty and disused with freight operators looking after their own locomotives at various allocated areas elsewhere in the vast expanse of the yard to the south. Plans have recently been thrown out to construct a plant to manufacture sleepers for Network Rail on this site following a huge local backlash. Just days after the rejection of this plan, a new one was submitted by West Midlands Trains to build a large new depot for the maintenance of their electric fleet. Following the planning submission at the end of January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic may well have altered and slowed the plan as I have heard little more information about it since.