Stupid question time, did UK railways have anything like roundhouses as engine sheds, (especially on the GWR). Only ask as I want to put a shed on the layout and a roundhouse style would fit much easier. :beers:
Caz
Guildford definately had one (Southern Region)
http://www.tyseleylocoworks.co.uk/tlw/tlw_history.htm (http://www.tyseleylocoworks.co.uk/tlw/tlw_history.htm)
Barrow Hill and a few others as well
There was the original Roundhouse at Camden on the London & Birmingham Railway, built in 1846, though, like several others, the turntable was actually under the roof of the building.
;D Whats a roundhouse please :P
Dave
There is / was a roundhouse at St Blazey (GWR 100 per cent) I remember going there in the late 70's when it was full of Diesels. Also my fading memory thinks that there was a form of roundhouse at Old Oak Common (Definitely GWR) in use until the final days of that Depot.
Quote from: bbdave on July 16, 2012, 08:27:48 PM
;D Whats a roundhouse please :P
Dave
One that doesn't have any corners to collect dust ;D ;D ;D
Seriously, its a loco shed that either has a turntable inside with storage tracks directly off the turntable or can be an external turntable with a semi-circular shed around it with tracks directly off the table to the shed.
Caz
Caz. St Blazey was different in that it had the turntable with the shed accessed from it, but the turntable was in the open.
Old Oak Common had 3 roundhouses I believe .
There were others on the GWR eg Bristol (St Phillips Marsh), Aberdare, Swindon, Taunton, Newport (Ebbw Junction) and several others.
Other regions (notably LMS had several also).
St Blazet was unusual in being a half roundhouse,
Quote from: bbdave on July 16, 2012, 08:27:48 PM
;D Whats a roundhouse please :P
Dave
They tend to be big in the US :o :thumbsup:
(http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/Scotsoft/NGF/Others%20Pictures/5a1438b3.jpg)
Pennsylvania Railroad, Mingo Junction Roundhouse, Ohio
cheers John.
Are you sure that's not the result of a meteor strike :o ;D
St Blazey Shed from above, I'm not sure of the date, it's obviously modernish, the caravan holiday park and slurry tanks wagons give a clue as to possible date.
http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/flyingpast/images/Image_pop-ups/land/land_st_blazey.html (http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/flyingpast/images/Image_pop-ups/land/land_st_blazey.html)
Sadly there is next to nothing of it left now. Most of it is individual industrial units.
Brilliant find, just the excuse I needed, thanks very much Jack9645
Caz
Everyday is a day at school :thumbsup:
Dave
Quote from: bbdave on July 16, 2012, 11:21:57 PM
Everyday is a day at school :thumbsup:
Dave
Please say it's not so. Otherwise I'll have to give you my lunch money ;)
USA tank engine on barrow hill turntable...
(http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy103/bluedepot/IMG_0758_zps1860503d.jpg) (http://s782.photobucket.com/user/bluedepot/media/IMG_0758_zps1860503d.jpg.html)
i like this video about la rotonde de chamberry in france...
Les Trains de la Rotonde de Chambery (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfh1mkmRWh4#ws)
They had a nice example of a roundhouse at Leicester which ticks all of the boxes except it wasn't GWR...
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4S_7Aytm4qU/UCff7TZiW0I/AAAAAAAAAiY/WgesJOsjQQU/s1600/Leicester+Yard045+edit.jpg)
excellent
wish i had been alive to see leicester roundhouse!!!!! beal street depot is so boring now, just the odd GBRF 66 stationed there and some cement wagons...
Tim
On a smaller scale, the North Eastern Railway built roundhouses at North Blyth and Tyne Dock, to name but two. There were others.
Just found this thread. Inverness had a roundhouse. Although it was intended to be, it wasn't a complete circle though and it obviously wasn't GWR!
Two at Middlesbrough, one at Newport (Thornaby)!
http://www.locosheds.co.uk/index.php?n=Main.ShedIndex?sh_group=O (http://www.locosheds.co.uk/index.php?n=Main.ShedIndex?sh_group=O)