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A garden railway's scale is usually in the range of 1/32 to 1/12 (1:12), running on either 45 mm (1.772 in) or 32 mm (1.26 in) gauge track. 1/32 scale (1:32) is also called "three-eighths scale" meaning 3/8 of an inch on the model represents one foot on the real thing.
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. [1]
Both structures were built in approximately 1847 and are listed buildings; the much larger roundhouse is occupied by a commercial vehicle hire company while the half-roundhouse is currently (May 2021) unoccupied. St. Blazey engine shed in Cornwall, now on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register; Sunderland South Dock locomotive depot
Railway Institute Building; Retarder (railroad) Rotameter (railway) S. Section house; Southern Railway Headquarters, Chennai; T. Train shed; Transfer table; W. Water ...
The B&O Railroad Museum complex in Baltimore, Maryland contains the restored railcar maintenance roundhouse of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, originally built in 1884. [ 25 ] The roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois , constructed in 1856, was purchased and restored by NFL football player Walter Payton in 1995.
It was converted to house the Royal Train—which was built in the adjacent works—in 1963. It closed in 1991 After a period of disuse as the works contracted post-privatisation, the building was converted into residences. [1] [2] The shed was designated a Grade II listed building in 2001. Listed building status provides legal protection from ...
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Barrow Hill Roundhouse, until 1948 known as Staveley Engine Shed, is a former Midland Railway roundhouse in Barrow Hill, near Staveley and Chesterfield, Derbyshire (grid reference), now serving as a railway heritage centre.