List of railway roundhouses

This is a list of railway roundhouses. A roundhouse is a building used for servicing locomotives, large, circular or semicircular structures often located adjacent to or surrounding turntables.

1850s drawing of facade and plan of the roundhouse for Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway

Australia

Exterior of the 'Garratt Shed' end of No. 2 Roundhouse at Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot

• Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre located, Goulburn, features the largest heritage based operating roundhouse in NSW and displays the historic transition from steam to diesel operations
• Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society, a railway museum, Peterborough, South Australia, includes a roundhouse
• Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum, Valley Heights, 75 km west of Sydney, contains the oldest surviving roundhouse in Australia
• Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot, Newcastle, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, the 1948 vintage No. 2 roundhouse survives, a second roundhouse dating from 1924 was also on the site but it was demolished in 1990
• The Collie Roundhouse in Collie Western Australia is rundown and not in use
• The Lachlan Valley Railway is based at Cowra roundhouse
• Pacific National use the remains of the roundhouse at Werris Creek, New South Wales
• Gemco Rail use the roundhouse at Parkes, New South Wales
• The roundhouse at Casino, New South Wales still stands although currently out of use

Canada

The Great Western Railway Roundhouse in London, Ontario, Canada

• John Street Roundhouse, Toronto, Ontario, which is now the Steam Whistle Brewing, was formerly a Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotive repair facility
• CNR Spadina Roundhouse was also in Toronto until it was demolished in 1986
• Vancouver Roundhouse, now the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Michigan Central Railroad Roundhouse, 240 Waterloo Street, London, Ontario, constructed in 1887 to service steam locomotives and ceased operations in the late 1890s, restored as a digital media centre^[1]
• Roundhouse in Hornepayne, Ontario made by the Canadian National Railway
• Biggar Roundhouse, built by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1909, demolished in 2015
• Roundhouse, Capreol, Ontario - roundhouse structure remains but turntable removed
• Roundhouse, Chapleau, Ontario

The Biggar, Saskatchewan Roundhouse being demolished

• Hanna, Alberta Roundhouse was designated a Provincial Historic Resource in August 2015, Hanna Roundhouse Society purchased the roundhouse, exterior turntable, and 9.97 acres in September 2013
• Heritage Park Roundhouse, Calgary, Alberta^[2]

France

The Chambéry roundhouse in Chambéry, France

• Annemasse roundhouse
• Aubagne roundhouse
• Avignon roundhouses (two side-by-side)
• Bayonne roundhouse
• Bénestroff roundhouse
• Bizanos roundhouse
• Bordeaux roundhouse
• Castelnaudary roundhouse
• Chalindrey roundhouse

• Chambéry roundhouses (two side-by-side), built between 1906 and 1910, Chambéry
• Charleville-Mézières Mohon roundhouses (two side-by-side)
• Châtenoy-le-Royal roundhouses (two side-by-side)
• Clermont-Ferrand roundhouse
• Colmar roundhouse
• Damelevieres roundhouse
• Dijon roundhouse
• Grigny roundhouse
• Longueau roundhouse
• Longueville roundhouse, Longueville, now the "Musée vivant du Chemin de Fer"
• Lyon roundhouses (three)
• Marseille roundhouses (three)
• Montauban roundhouse
• Montluçon roundhouse, Montluçon
• Moulins roundhouse
• Mulhouse roundhouse
• Nevers roundhouse
• Nogent-Vincennes roundhouse, built in 1849 in Paris-la Villette depot where it was used until it was disassembled in 1859 and then rebuilt at Nogent-Vincennes depot
• Paris roundhouse
• Saint-Étienne roundhouse
• Strasbourg-Hausbergen roundhouses
• Sarrebourg roundhouse
• Thionville roundhouse
• Toulon roundhouse
• Valence roundhouse
• Valenton roundhouse

Germany

• Staßfurt
• Wittenberge, ruin
• Halle (Saale), originally 4, 3 left as one is destroyed in 2017. The one in best condition is now part of the DB Eisenbahn Museum.
• Berlin-Pankow-Heinersdorf^[3]
• Berlin-Rummelsburg^[4]
• Rostock
• Neustrelitz
• Ottbergen, no longer rail connected

Hungary

• Budapest North Depot (now the Hungarian Railway Museum).

A roundhouse at Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in Hungary

Italy

• Turin, near Porta Nouva terminal, 2 large roundhouses, one still currently in use by the FS electric locomotive fleet, the other is used as storage for historical equipment, neither accessible to public

Japan

• Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum, Kyoto
• Tsuyama Roundhouse, Tsuyama

Mexico

• Ferrocarriles Mexicanos yards southwest of downtown, Guadalajara
• Ferrocarriles Mexicanos yards, San Luis Potosi

Poland

There are several dozen round houses still in operational use in Poland (albeit for diesel or electric locomotives) each with electric powered turntables. Many also remain extant but unused such as Gnieszno and Bydgoszcz. Below are ones associated with steam preservation.

• Roundhouse, Wolsztyn and Leszno, used daily in conjunction with scheduled PKP steam
• Okrąglak roundhouse in Piła
• Roundhouse Skierniewice
• Roundhouse Jaworzna Slaska
• Roundhouse Tczew
• Roundhouse Bydgoszcz

The roundhouse at the National Railway Museum Entroncamento in Entroncamento, Portugal

Portugal

• Entroncamento Municipality Portuguese National Railway Museum
• Barreiro "Rotunda das Locomotivas" (Locomotive Roundabout) at the terminal railyard of the Alentejo Railway^[5]
• Castelo Branco "Rotunda das Locomotivas" (Locomotive Roundabout) at the terminal railyard of the Alentejo Railway ^[6]

Switzerland

• The lok remise at Uster station, Ulster, canton of Zurich

The restored roundhouse in Uster, Switzerland

Sri Lanka

• Galle Railway Station
• Badulla Railway Station

Taiwan

The Changhua Fan-Shaped Depot in Changhua City, Taiwan

• Changhua Station (彰化車站) Changhua Fan-Shaped Depot

United Kingdom

Sunderland South Dock locomotive depot

• Barrow Hill Engine Shed roundhouse, Derbyshire
• North Midland Railway roundhouse, listed building built in 1839, Derby, England
• The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England was built in 1847, but was too small for its function within 20 years, now an arts center
• Horsham Motive Power Depot
• Roundhouse and half-roundhouse, Wellington Road/Graingers Way, Leeds, both built in approximately 1847 and are listed buildings, the much larger roundhouse is occupied by a commercial vehicle hire company; the half-roundhouse now houses a retail wine warehouse and a procurement management company
• Roundhouse and working turntable, St. Blazey, Cornwall, now on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register
• Sunderland South Dock locomotive depot

United States

The roundhouse at Chattanooga Railroad in Atlanta, Georgia

References

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