And We Thought Only Locos Used Turn Tables!

[murrayec]

A car turn table!

[Galteemore]

Looks like the forecourt of the place Mrs G and I rented in D6 about 25 years ago. Could have done with a yoke like that ! 

[Broithe]

 

[Mol_PMB]

There is a trolleybus turntable somewhere in Europe, where the route terminates but there’s no space for a turning loop. 

[Galteemore]

6 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

There is a trolleybus turntable somewhere in Europe, where the route terminates but there’s no space for a turning loop. 

Unterburg in Germany. Also had them in Bournemouth and Huddersfield 

[Broithe]

"Compass swinging" used to go on quite a bit.

[patrick]

I recall seeing a palvan being turned on the turntable in Tralee once as the door on one side was inoperable. 

[jhb171achill]

On the entire Isle of Man Railway there was only ever a single turntable, at St. Johns.

From 1873 when the first stretch of the railway opened, to the present, the IOMR does not turn locomotives. With the exception of a very small number of occasions, they always worked chimney first out of Douglas and bunker first towards Douglas.

The turntable was installed for one reason only - turning carriages periodically to ensure even weathering of the paintwork on both sides, particularly on the very exposed coastal section of the Manx Northern line mid-way  between St Johns and Ramsey. Since 1968, only the Port Erin line operates, so both the northern line, St Johns station and that turntable have all gone.

Edited Saturday at 17:36 by jhb171achill

[Broithe]

3 hours ago, Broithe said:

"Compass swinging" used to go on quite a bit.

Actually, the German ones had the means to hold a taildragger up in flying attitude.

 

And - for the Continental H0 boys, there is even a 1/72 kit for that.

Similar thing available in 1/48, too.

[commerlad]

3 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

On the entire Isle of Man Railway there was only ever a single turntable, at St. Johns.

From 1873 when the first stretch of the railway opened, to the present, the IOMR does not turn locomotives. With the exception of a very small number of occasions, they always worked chimney first out of Douglas and bunker first towards Douglas.

The turntable was installed for one reason only - turning carriages periodically to ensure even weathering of the paintwork on both sides, particularly on the very exposed coastal section of the Manx Northern line mid-way  between St Johns and Ramsey. Since 1968, only the Port Erin line operates, so both the northern line, St Johns station and that turntable have all gone.

And it came (Second Hand) from the County Donegal Railway (At the same time as the Walker Railcars 19 & 20), Made from the frames of a Class 5.

 

As for a car turntable, I saw one years ago in Scarbrough (Near the North Bay / Peasholme Park.)

Edited Saturday at 20:14 by commerlad

[jhb171achill]

3 minutes ago, commerlad said:

And it came (Second Hand) from the County Donegal Railway (At the same time as the Walker Railcars 19 & 20), Made from the frames of a Class 5.

 

As for a car turntable, I saw one years ago in Scarbrough (Near the North Bay / Peasholme Park.)

The IOM one isn’t the Donegal one, unless they got a 2nd one which they never used. The St John’s one in the IOM was there from about 1905 I think.

[commerlad]

I'm sure I've read they had it. Still don't always believe what you read!

[Galteemore]

5 minutes ago, commerlad said:

I'm sure I've read they had it. Still don't always believe what you read!

They had it but was never installed. Presumably an pre-Ailsa plan that didn’t come off. 

Edited Saturday at 20:39 by Galteemore

[Horsetan]

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

They had it but was never installed....

Did they scrap it in the end?

[Mayner]

Car Turntables are sometimes a planning planning condition for new homes/renovations in fashionable (expensive) suburbs in some of New Zealand's cities. https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/105333242/car-turntables-and-car-stackers-in-hot-demand-in-crowded-cities

We have also built the odd rotating house and resturant. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/20/new-zealand-rotating-house-sale-auckland-maraeta-hillside-valuation-pictures.

While the traditional urban New Zealand home was a (3-4 bed bungalow on a 1/4acre section (site), there has been a growing move towards intensification in recent years with town houses on small sites in major cities together with a tendency to build large architecturally designed homes on very small sections in the most expensive suburbs.

Another New Zealand oddity is the high proportion of private funicular railways/cable cars used to access homes on Wellington's hillsides.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/19/city-of-cable-cars-the-ups-and-downs-of-life-with-wellingtons-private-incline-lifts

 

 

[Galteemore]

8 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Did they scrap it in the end?

I believe so 

[Phil3150]

There was a bus turntable in St Helier on Jersey after they turned the old railway station into a bus station

Phil