Springwell
Butlins

© Dave Hardy
"Butlins" with wagon shop to left

This is a 1950s iron framed building with brick infill and a corrugated iron roof, built as an addition to the wagon shops. The building has a sleeper floor and a pit between the rails for part of its length.

© Dave Hardy
"Butlins"

Used as repair shop for wooden wagons at a time when steel wagon started to replace wooden ones, the name Butlins comes from the alleged restful almost holiday camp nature of the work undertaken within this building.

During the time of the construction of the replicas of Rocket and Novelty by Locomotion Enterprises for the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill Trials, Butlins was used as the erecting shop for the replica Rocket.

This page last updated 30 November 2002