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| Author: | Alan S. Levy [ Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Severn Valley Railway Question |
I was looking at some of the rail museums in the UK on Google Earth (Yes it is slow night at work). There is a VERY large train-shed like building near the end of the line in Kidderminster. It looks like the size of a zepplin hanger! It's 4 tracks wide and about .2 miles long. Is this storage for their trains or something else? Thanks to anyone who can answer this question for me! |
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| Author: | Jack Powell [ Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Severn Valley Railway Question |
"Is this storage for their trains or something else?" The building you describe is the Kidderminster Carriage Shed, built within the last ten years or so with (mainly) National Lottery funding. Capacity is approximately 52 coaches, each approximately 60-65 feet long. The SVR maintains six operational passenger car sets (two GWR, one LMS, one LNER, and two BR), each of which typically contains seven or eight coaches with spares held in reserve, so even with a four-track shed a fifth of a mile long, there's not room for everything. - GJC |
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| Author: | Onder [ Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Severn Valley Railway Question |
http://www.svr.co.uk/ Poke around in here. |
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| Author: | Alan S. Levy [ Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Severn Valley Railway Question |
Thanks guys! I just have to say.... What a huge building for a preserved railway! |
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| Author: | Onder [ Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Severn Valley Railway Question |
Bluebell railway has a project under way now called Operation Undercover. In my opinion, this is the most important theme in preservation now. All the restoration in the world goes downhill the day the equipment is parked outside even if it never turns a wheel. Sure, in the American southwest or perhaps in South Africa, this is less of a problem but in the temperate climates it is vital. Not to forget the increasing problems with thieves and vandals. |
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| Author: | Bob Davis [ Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Severn Valley Railway Question |
I was intrigued by the use of the term "Zeppelin hangar"--that was the nickname applied to Barn 7 (now designated the Ron Ruffulo Car House) at Orange Empire Ry. Museum by an air-minded member. Out in Perris, we don't get much rain, by the sun is no friend of railway preservation either. It doesn't take many years for solar radiation to change a "Big Red Car" into a "Big Pink Car". |
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| Author: | Dave [ Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Severn Valley Railway Question |
Gold Coast RR Museum in Miami uses a real blimp hangar. Impressive building. dave |
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