railway turntable

The firm also supplied railway turntables in the early to mid-1930s.

The building was once a railway turntable shed and the (round) interior is impressive.

The appellant maintained a railway turntable (a rotating platform with a track for turning a locomotive) near a publicly traveled path.

By 1868 there were four lines and platforms and a railway turntable as well as coal depot and ancillary buildings on the site.

A railway turntable is a device for turning railroad rolling stock, usually locomotives, so that they can be moved back in the direction from which they came.

These motors were commonly used to power railway turntables in the UK, using vacuum created by a steam locomotive's vacuum brake ejector.

The train's power (locomotive engines) is turned around, using a railway turntable in Lorton, and a Wye in Sanford.

A Lazy Susan featured as the railway turntable in the British children's television show Thomas the Tank Engine (1979).

The class-one flat yard consists of a diesel locomotive shed, an electric locomotive shed, washing and sick lines and a railway turntable.

It was originally built in 1847 as a roundhouse, a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was only used for railway purposes for about a decade.

Many of the external scenes were filmed in the Yaletown area of the city, including one distinctive shot of the old railway turntable next to the Roundhouse at Davie and Pacific.

Other applications included usage by the railway companies, where they powered railway turntables, cranes, hoists, etc., revolving stages at the London Palladium and Coliseum Theatre, and powering pipe organs.

After leaving Hatfield, the Nauck line followed the present routes of S. Uhle Street and Walter Reed Drive before travelling downhill on S. Kenmore Street to end at a railway turntable at 24th Road S. and S. Kenmore Street.