engine shed

engine shed

English

Noun

engine shed (plural engine sheds)

1. (rail transport, dated) A building for housing railway locomotives.
   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:

     Modern engine sheds of advanced design have also been built at Radyr, Abercynon, and elsewhere, whilst other depots have been remodelled and re-equipped.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:

     Tons of engine sheds would bite the dust with the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.

Synonyms

• locomotive shed
• motive power depot

Related terms

• roundhouse

Translations

railway building

Chinese: Mandarin: 機務段／机务段 (zh) (jīwùduàn) Danish: remise (da) c Finnish: veturivarikko Norwegian: Bokmål: lokomotivstall m Nynorsk: lokomotivstall m Russian: железнодоро́жное депо́ n (železnodoróžnoje depó)

References

• “engine shed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.