How are the engines turned around? Do some run tender first?
2007-01-22 02:20:23 · 3 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Didcot railway centre retains many original GWR features including the engine shed, turntable pit and coal stage from the 1932 rebuilding. The turntable itself is a Southern Railway (UK) item from the Southampton Docks.
Swanage Railway also has a turntable, as you can see from one of the pictures:
http://www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=24-32-0
2007-01-22 02:42:08 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Severn Valley Railway has one at its Kidderminster end and the parts of a turntable which it is intended to install at the Bridgenorth end. The locomotives therefore spend half their time travelling tender first which causes increased wear of the trailing coupled wheels. When running on the main line they are turned by going round the nearest suitable triangular junction.
2007-01-22 12:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by David P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The severn valley at Kidderminster has one too and is probably
the best preserved railway in the British Empire!
2007-01-22 11:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋