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Mid Norfolk Turntable

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  1. Matt37401

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    It looks like the Mid Norfolk has accquired the table from Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.
    http://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/news/...c_turntable_for_its_dereham_station_1_3987271
     
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    where's the "similar" one in the photo?
     
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    That looks like Wansford quite a few years ago before the station buildings were built.
     
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    Wansford - I thought it looked like an old picture going back a bit so did a google search and found the image - it was taken in 1977 lol
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    Link here - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1244069

    Looks a bit different now with the new buildings [​IMG]
     
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    It's the former Hitchin turntable so good to see it's getting a working future. Last steam loco, or any loco for that matter, to be turned on it is thought to have been 7029 on 17th September 1967 prior to working a rail tour.
     
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    I remember helping to break this out of the pit at Hitchin. Had a vacuum engine to drive it.
     
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    1977.....38 years ago...... just saying
     
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    You feeling old RG? Have to say this is good news they just need somthing to turn on it. Like a B17 maybe!
     
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    Mind you i've been chuckling at the comments in the link, you'd think the people of Norfolk would be happy to get a turntable but their biggest issue seems to be the fact the paper used a 38 year old picture of a Turntable to show what it will look like - I would imagine the picture of a pile rusty bits awaiting renovation would of really captured the public's imagination :rolleyes:
     
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    Do you think they'll start debating what colour it'll be next? LNER black or BR Black?! =-O
     
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    Load haul livery I reckon :Resistanceisfutile:
     
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    Just the branding on triple grey or the whole hog with orange wrap round ends?!
     
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    what's with that odd track layout in 1977?

    looks like a Channel 4 bit they put up before the programmes
     
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    You can't really moan the local model shop was out of setrack points when the picture was taken :D
     
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    Track laying was still underway in 1977. What you see is the yard layout before it was completed.
     
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    bit of an obvious statement that.....why did they put in that odd bit of crossover would be more to the point.... surely they didn't build the turntable to line up with an existing piece of track?
     
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    My recollection is that the crossing in the picture was part of what became a trolley bed. The acquisition of a set of tandem turnouts from Rye House power station and a single slip enabled the yard to be remodelled later, so that access to the southern part of the sheds no longer needs to be via the turntable. This gives a more flexible layout and means that the turntable is subject to less wear and tear. Given the expansion of Wansford shed since 1977 this is very convenient: if I recall correctly, when the photograph was taken what is now the centre shed did not exist, to say nothing of the recent heavy overhaul shed.
     
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    Perhaps the MNR should construct a larger diameter pit to accommodate a turntable extension in the future.

    To eschew turning pacific locos may be a mistake.
     
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    Just do what Barrow Hill do and use an outrigger though for the life of me I've no idea how they work...
     
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