Tyseley's 2nd Turntable

I've only just got round to reading the article about Tyseley Locomotive Works in last month's Steam Railway and noted that they've had a clearout of scrap - including the spare turntable originally acquired for Stratford-on-Avon.

Can anyone confirm if it was sold to another preservation centre or if it has, in fact, gone for razor blades?

 

So is the Stratford-on-Avon plan scrap as well?

Dave

 

The Steam Railway article stated that as a longer lease had been secured for the Tyseley site there was less of a need to develop Stratford so that has been mothballed.

 

Thanks

Dave

 

Presumably the spare turntable, assuming it was in restorable condition, was offered to other Heritage lines before being weighed in for scrap?

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It would be a pity to have scrapped it as certain parts, such as the pintle and outriggers are harder to reproduce than the main beams themselves. I witnessed the aftermath of the comprehensive mistaken destruction of Perth 'table in 2009 and it's not a pretty sight.

 

There's spare turntables all over Europe, 2 a penny.

If someone desperately wanted one, as others have done, could acquire one from there.

 

I'm guessing here, but if the different European railway authorities no longer needed a turntable, scrap prices being what they are, I'd be surprised if a UK railway would even know it was available before a local scrapper moved in. I seem to remember that the Dean Forest acquired a 'table from France and that it now sits, dismantled, in the weeds at the back of Toddington, G&WR. I certainly saw it at the latter location about 10 years ago. Anyway, I'm still hoping someone here can answer my original question?

 

Europeans tend to be less hasty about scrapping there infrastructure than we in the UK.
Eastern Germany, Poland etc have almost full steam locomotive infrastructure in place in many locations,even major cities, despite not having seen a steam locomotive in two decades.
Picking up the phone, email etc would introduce the possibility to acquire at reasonable rates...

You could pick yourself a roundhouse, towers, turntables, cranes the lot in Poland if you wanted.

 

Thanks Martin. Don't know why the secrecy but I respect it anyway. No doubt another railway will mention the acquisition in due course. Now I wonder where someone might want to put one....

 

This is a link to the plan for the proposed Stratford-on-Avon centre (right-click to marquee zoom) http://apps.stratford.gov.uk/eplanning/DocumentViewer/505857.pdf

Dave

 

Wasn't the ELR after an 80 footer from Germany not so long ago ?

Providing your not fussed about a British outline one, a Turntable isn't too hard to come by for a price.

 

Link's not working for me, Dave.

 

The Dean Forest didn't acquire it from France, they acquired it from the GCR who had acquired it from France (Calais I think) some years previously. It's the one that used to sit at Loughborough at the side of the line between the signal box and station. I didn't know it had moved again to the G/WR but it's good to know that the Dean Forest and now G/WR have put it to as much good use as we did...?!

 

Well I guess it could be a heritage line, or maybe even somewhere like Weymouth ?

 

Thanks pmh, and now of course the GCR have installed the ex-Ribble (ex York) 60' turntable at Quorn. Round and round we go (pun intended).

 

Was Quorn chosen due to space available?

 

I think so. I found an article online from their in-house magazine. Just google Great Central Railway turntable and you should be able to find about how they installed it.

 

Apols Corbs, this should work http://apps.stratford.gov.uk/eplanning/AppDetail.aspx? appkey=K03EPWPM04S00 then 'other' on the left hand side under 'Plans' or if not the planning application with Stratford-upon-Avon was ref 08/01113/FUL

Dave