[2] A modern concrete-fabricated motive power depot was opened by the Southern Railway on 10 September 1933 to service its new marshalling yard at Hither Green.

The former British Rail Civil Mechanical & Electrical Engineering department (CM&EE), which had been based here since 1991, became part of Balfour Beatty.

Class 33 began to be phased out in 1990 and was completely withdrawn by 1998, when the depot lost its permanent locomotive allocation.

Some Class 31s were displaced from Toton TMD and transferred temporarily to Hither Green to work engineers' trains, but these were withdrawn in 2001.

Located next to the up sidings is Grove Park Safety Training Centre, which can be accessed from Brownhill Road (A205 South Circular) in Catford.