List of railway roundhouses

This is a partial list of railway roundhouses. A roundhouse is a building used for servicing locomotives, large, circular or semicircular structures often located adjacent to or surrounding turntables.

1850s drawing of facade and plan of the roundhouse for Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway.
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Australia

Exterior of the 'Garratt Shed' end of No.2 Roundhouse at Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot

Canada

Great Western Railway Roundhouse.
This photograph shows Biggar, Saskatchewan's Roundhouse being demolished.

France

Chambéry roundhouse.

Germany

Hungary

Roundhouse at Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum.

Italy

Japan

Mexico

Poland

There are several dozen round houses still in operational use in Poland (albeit for diesel or electric locomotives) each with electric powered turntables. Many also remain extant but unused such as Gnieszno and Bydgoszcz. Below are ones associated with steam preservation.

Roundhouse at the National Railway Museum Entroncamento

Portugal

Entroncamento Municipality Portuguese National Railway Museum.

Switzerland

The restored roundhouse at Uster in Switzerland.

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Changhua Fan-Shaped Depot

United Kingdom

United States

Roundhouse in Atlanta, Chattanooga Railroad (Photograph taken 1864 by George N. Barnard)

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