Clacton Servicing Depot Clacton Servicing Depot Clacton Carriage Servicing Depot is a stabling point located in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England. The depot is situated on the western side of the Great Eastern Main Line and is adjacent to Clacton-on-Sea station. The depot code is CC. Opened by British Rail in 1981, the depot was built with a three-road dead-end shed. Around 1987, the depot had an allocation of Classes 302, 308, 309, 312 and 313 EMUs. The depot lost its allocation of rolling stock in 1994, and was put to various uses before being scheduled for reopening around 2009. As of 2016, there is
Clacton-on-Sea railway station , or Clacton-on-Sea. Clacton is on a spur from Thorpe-le-Soken which was built by the Clacton-on-Sea Railway and originally operated by the Great Eastern Railway. It opened some 15 years after the branch to Walton was opened. On 1 January 1923 the station passed to the London and North Eastern Railway following the 1921 Railways Act. After World War II and following nationalisation, it fell under the auspices of British Railways Eastern Region. Services were steam-operated until the line was electrified, with Clacton first seeing electric trains on 16 March 1959. Initially, the line was only electrified as far as