Locosheds

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.

 

St Blazey. Built by Cornwall Minerals Railway 1874. Nine shed roads adjacent to an open-air turntable.
Still stands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Blazey_engine_shed
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50.3521,-4.7092&spn=0.01,0.01&t=h&q=50.3521,-4.7092

 

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

 

Brilliant Nick, many thanks. Now: do you by any chance know how it is properly described? As a half-roundhouse?

 

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.

 

Inverness, Guildford, and part of Crewe North all meet your criteria.

 

Horsham 75D

 

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...

 

There is another semi-roundhouse which still exists in Leeds. Here is the link to the aerial view:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&s...4867,-1.564012&spn=0.001103,0.002411&t=h&z=19

Unfortunately the Google car didn't go down Graingers Way.