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A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof . Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train cars not in use, The first train shed was built in 1830 at Liverpool 's Crown Street Station .
Northern Pacific Railroad Shops, Brainerd, Minnesota Inside a diesel shed, Peterborough, South Australia Old railway depot in Suonenjoki, Finland. A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds ...
A goods shed is a railway building designed for storing goods before, after, and during loading to and unloading from a train. A typical goods shed will have a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they were built alongside a track with possibly just a canopy over the door.
Railway station architecture is not just the architecture of the station building. It includes the design of separate platforms and canopies, or the train shed (i.e. an overall canopy for the platforms and tracks), if any.
British Railways shed codes were used to identify the engine sheds that its locomotives and multiple units were allocated to for maintenance purposes. The former London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) alpha-numeric system was extended to cover all regions and used until replaced by alphabetic codes in 1973.
A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing ... the oldest reinforced concrete car shed extant in Japan ...
Pages in category "Railway buildings and structures" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Goods shed; O. Overpass; R. Railway Historical ...
The Royal Train Shed was part of the former Wolverton railway works in Milton Keynes, southern England. It was built in 1899 and changed use several times before it was used to house the British Royal Train from 1963 to 1991. The building has since been converted into residential use and is now a Grade II listed building. [1]