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
Constituency
Swindon South MP: Heidi Alexander (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1984
Type
Industrial structure
Address
British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Turntable, Rodbourne Road, Central Swindon North
OS grid reference
SU 140 846
Coordinates
51.56077, -1.79858
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Turntable receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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