Re: Roundhouse at Valley Hts

[jdennis@acslink.net.au (John Dennis)]

>> What's the proper term for the Valley Heights loco facility. Does
>> roundhoues describe loco stalls arranged in a circle fashion around a
>> turntable or does it in fact mean a "round" house i.e. right round the
>> turntable. If that is so, what is the proper description for Valley
>> Heights.
> 
>> AIU Seymour and Junee were/are proper round houses. Now I'm not sure
>> what to call Bendigo where the turntable is inside the rectangular shed.
> 
>Your first statement is what I would call a "roundhouse". To my
>knowledge,
>there were very few wholly circular roundhouses in the world.
>AFAIK, the VR loco sheds were never called roundhouses, even though most
>of 
>the larger ones had the turntable in the middle with radiating roads.
>North Melbourne, I believe, had 2 tunrtables inside it.

I tend to agree that the Victorian loco sheds tended not to be called
roundhouses.

I thought North Melbourne had three turntables, but I could well be
mistaken.  Ballarat had two inside the shed.

JD

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