British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Turntable is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1984. Industrial structure.
British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Turntable
- WRENN ID
- sheer-string-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1984
- Type
- Industrial structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Turntable is a railway balancing turntable built in 1902. It features a steel machine set in a brick-lined pit and has a diameter of 19.8 meters. The turntable is painted in the livery of the Great Western Railway. Large locomotive turntables that are still operational are now rare in the British railway system. This turntable is part of a significant group of Victorian industrial structures within the Great Western Railway works.
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