I think cost had something to do with the lack of a proper pit. I've heard the turntable and enginehouse were removed sometime in the 1940s, about the time they stopped running passenger trains behind the D&H's unique 4-4-0s.

Any guesses as to why
> it would have been built this way, and as to
> when these facilities dissappeared?


D&H 4-4-0, Rutland, 1930
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