Give us, this day, all that you showed me, the power and the glory, till my engine comes!

[_pyromancer_]

Sunday saw Kenny, Laura, Chris and I take a trip to Barrow Hill Roundhouse, a preserved locomotive maintenance depot near Chesterfield where quite a lot of herritage diesel and electric locomotives, plus a few steamers, are based. They were having a "Type 5 / Twin Engine Gala", which basically means we got to play with lots of very large

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[big_daz]

I didn't think there were any Roundhouses left other than the ones at New Wortley and Camden?

[_pyromancer_]

The building is square, but it's definetly a roundhouse in that it has miltiple tracks radiating from a central turntable. Built by the Midland.

More info here: http://www.barrowhill.org/

[salmon_of_doubt]

We popped down there a month or two back, just on spec. Deltic shed was shut though ;-)

How often do they have them running?