car shed trains
A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. it is also known as an overall roof.the first train shed was built in 1830 at liverpool's crown street station.. the biggest train sheds were often built as an arch of glass and iron, while the smaller were built as normal pitched roofs.. Initial specifications were for a 4 road maintenance shed, for 10 car (262 metres [860 ft]) trains, with an additional single road shed for maintaining separate diesel power cars, and facilities for re-fuelling, wheel re-profiling, washing, and toilet emptying, as well as overnight stabling facilities (sidings for 4 full and 20 half trainsets. The meols cop triangle and the electric car sheds were located on the east side of southport. the west side of the triangle was the first to open on 10 june 1878. it was part of the west lancashire railway’s (wlr) southport & preston railway which opened in a number of stages between 19 february 1878 and 5 september 1882..
