Springwell
Engine Shed

© Dave Hardy
Engine shed at Springwell

This is a 1930s built brick building incorporating as a party wall one of the stone tub shop walls. Equipped with a pit and a travelling crane this is the area where locomotives were repaired. The shed road is also equipped with shear-legs for locomotive lifts.

This shed carries on the same function today with the repair and housing of some of the locomotives on the railway - other locomotives are either housed in the Wagon Shop or Butlins. The loco shed was also the place where the replica of Novelty was erected.

This page last updated 30 November 2002