Lost Engine Sheds: Nine Elms 70A – London’s Last Great Steam Depot 🚂🔥 Hidden just beyond Vauxhall Station once stood one of the greatest steam depots in Britain—the legendary Nine Elms 70A, the beating heart of Southern Region steam and the final stronghold of mainline steam locomotives serving London Waterloo. From the 1840s to the end of steam in 1967, Nine Elms was a world of heat, smoke, coal dust, and constant movement. It housed everything from Merchant Navy Pacifics to West Country clas