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Locosheds

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    Steamboat Bill New Member

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    Hi all,

    I'm not sure if this is actually the right place for this question, but I cannot find any other classification which looks more appropriate.

    Can anyone please say whether the UK had any locosheds shaped like a segment (or two or three) of an orange, with a turntable controlling access to it? I don't mean a roundhouse, which by definition I would take as a complete circle as at Barrow Hill, OOC etc., but just a little shed, with perhaps half-a-a dozen or so stands. I have to say the sheds in Germany, where I live, seem to be termed "roundhouses", even though the vast majority of them are not complete circles, even at the larger depots.

    My reason for asking is that I am currently translating a magazine, and would very much like to get the facts right.
     
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  2. Nick Gough

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    ghost Part of the furniture

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    Portadown in Co.Armagh had a semi-circular roundhouse. Demolished around 1967.
    Not quite in the UK, but close - Clones in Co.Monaghan had a semi-circular roundhouse. It is still standing as it was built from very thick concrete and even the Irish Army couldn't blow it up!

    Hope this helps


    Keith
     
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  4. Steamboat Bill

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    Brilliant Nick, many thanks. Now: do you by any chance know how it is properly described? As a half-roundhouse?
     
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    I believe you could describe it either as a 'Roundhouse' or a 'Semi-Roundhouse', but how official either of those terms would be I don't know.
     
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    Inverness, Guildford, and part of Crewe North all meet your criteria.
     
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    Thanks to you too; I really should have remembered 70C, because I travelled past it dozens of times when the was still steam there - but it was big enough to qualify as a roundhouse, don't you think? As to Inverness, I never saw the shed close to. As to Crewe, I didn't start working there until 5A had closed.

    Your little pic by the way: that could almost have been me, if it had been 46235 on its way to Brum in 1966...
     
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