For other uses, see Motive power depot and Goods shed.
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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. Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train cars not in use, The first train shed was built in 1830 at Liverpool's Crown Street Station.[1]
The biggest train sheds were often built as an arch of glass and iron, while the smaller were built as normal pitched roofs.
The train shed with the biggest single span ever built was that at the second Philadelphia Broad Street Station, built in 1891.
A trainshed 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...
in a train. Trainsheds are buildings adjacent to a railway station where the tracks and platforms are covered by a roof. The first trainshed was built...
The Royal TrainShed was part of the former Wolverton railway works in Milton Keynes, southern England. It was built in 1899 and changed use several times...
termini, except London Bridge. Parts of the station, including the main trainshed, date from 1854, when it was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the London...
station terminal in Manchester. The station was the first to incorporate a trainshed. Crown Street station was demolished in 1836, as the Liverpool terminal...
around ten minutes' walk away along Euston Road. Behind the hotel, the trainshed is elevated 5 m (17 ft) above street level and the area below forms the...
covered by a 200-foot (60 m) trainshed, extended beyond the platforms by 155 feet (47 m) into a storage area and engine shed, fronted by an office building...
companies to accommodate the locomotives that provided their local train services. Each engine shed would have an allocation of locomotives that would reflect...
time the present northern arched trainshed was built. Designed by William Baker and Francis Stevenson, the trainshed was the largest such structure in...
carrier, continues to serve Union Station from a waiting area beneath the trainshed. The station is served by the Cardinal (Chicago–New York City, via Cincinnati...
had one platform and a trainshed that covered two broad gauge tracks. On one side of the trainshed was a single road engine shed and on the platform side...
and these saw frequent use. Behind all this, the huge iron and glass train-shed roof by writer and engineer Heinrich Seidel (1842-1906) measured 171 m...
just west of Chicago's Loop. The station's underground concourse and trainsheds abut the Chicago River; passageways extend west beneath Canal Street...
converted century-old trainshed. The actual train station is located two blocks away from the field. The abandoned trainshed is what is on the exterior...
measured by floor area. It has 19 overground platforms housed in six iron trainsheds, a multi-level concourse with towering stone arches, and a 298-metre-long...
large scaffold, as high and wide as the trusses of the trainshed, was erected at the rear of the shed. The scaffold was built on rollers, and as each section...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened originally in 1893 under the elevated trainshed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Philadelphia advocated...
depart from 32 platforms in two distinct halls: Hall 1, which is the older trainshed, contains tracks labelled with letters from A to N, while the modern addition...
passenger train infrastructure was demolished either after the 1988 cession of Amtrak service or during the renovation. As of 2024 the former trainshed area...
the temporary station buildings had been completed, including a timber trainshed. This modest provisional station, equipped with makeshift facilities,...
are in regular passenger use, serving Metro-North. At its opening, the trainshed contained 123 tracks, including duplicate track numbers and storage tracks...