Turntable at Yeovil Junction Station
TURNTABLE AT YEOVIL JUNCTION STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392981
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Turntable at Yeovil Junction Station
- Statutory Address:
- TURNTABLE AT YEOVIL JUNCTION STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392981
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-2005
- List Entry Name:
- Turntable at Yeovil Junction Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURNTABLE AT YEOVIL JUNCTION STATION
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TURNTABLE AT YEOVIL JUNCTION STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barwick and Stoford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56966 14005
Details
BARWICK
241/0/10024 YEOVIL JUNCTION STATION 04-SEP-05 Turntable at Yeovil Junction station
GV II Locomotive turntable. 1947. Built by Cowans, Sheldon & Co Ltd. of Carlisle for the Great Western Railway. Plan completely intact. 70' diameter, steel and iron plate; in brick-lined pit with concrete floor. Pivoted by runner wheels at either end on a circular rail around the perimeter of turntable pit. Operating apparatus located at one end of deck beneath a canopy with corrugated sheet roof. Hand rails to deck. HISTORY: The original Yeovil Junction Station was built in 1860 by the London and South Western Railway Company (LSWR) when it extended its main line from Salisbury to Exeter. In June 1864 the Great Western Railway opened the Clifton Maybank Railway, a broad gauge goods-only branch line from its line at Yeovil to a transfer shed at Yeovil Junction. The turntable was installed alongside the transfer shed in 1947, replacing the original hand-propelled one that was installed in the mid C19. It is operated by the vacuum or air brake system of the engine. The turntable now forms part of the Yeovil Steam Centre and is in working order. ASSESSMENT OF IMPORTANCE: A remarkably complete and rare survival of a railway turntable that remains operational. It contributes significantly to the character of Yeovil Junction Station and has good group value with the adjacent former engine transfer shed. SOURCE: `Yeovil, 150 Years of Railways', (2003) B.L. Jackson
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493427
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, B L, Yeovil 150 Years of Railways, (2003)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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