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This is a 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

Australia

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

Belgium

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  • Florennes roundhouse, small roundhouse, not connected by rail anymore, overgrown. (coordinates: 50.252754,4.614074)

Canada

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Incomplète.

Alberta

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  • Hanna, Alberta Roundhouse was designated a Provincial Historic Resource in August 2015, Hanna Roundhouse Society purchased the roundhouse, exterior turntable, and 9.97 acres in September 2013
  • Heritage Park Roundhouse, Calgary, Alberta. Built to store the park's collection of railway equipment.[1]
  • Strathcona Roundhouse, Edmonton, Alberta. Built and used by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is the last roundhouse in Alberta still in use. Once part of a much larger structure, only one stall remains. No turntable.
  • Roundhouse, Big Valley, Alberta - preserved roundhouse and turntable ruins

British Columbia

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Vancouver Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
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Ontario

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The Great Western Railway Roundhouse in London, Ontario, Canada

Quebec

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  • Roundhouse, Charny, Quebec - intact 39 stall Joffre Roundhouse and turntable, 2250 de la Rotonde Avenue, Charny, Quebec

Saskatchewan

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The Biggar, Saskatchewan Roundhouse being demolished

Chile

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  • Baquedano semi-circular roundhouse for 16 locos with turntable. Abandoned building claiming to be a museum, but unattended. Has 5 preserved (not restored) steam locomotives in and around the roundhouse, as well as old carriages and wagons. Is in the centre of a working railway yard - Baquedano Station. Site was used in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.

France

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The Chambéry roundhouse in Chambéry, France
  • Annemasse roundhouse (built in 1880, destroyed in 2017)
  • Aubagne roundhouse
  • Avignon roundhouses [fr] (two side-by-side)
  • Bayonne roundhouse
  • Bénestroff roundhouse
  • Bizanos roundhouse
  • Bordeaux roundhouse
  • Castelnaudary roundhouse
  • Chalindrey roundhouse
  • Chambéry roundhouses [fr] (two side-by-side), built between 1906 and 1910, Chambéry
  • Charleville-Mézières Mohon roundhouses (two side-by-side)
  • Châtenoy-le-Royal roundhouses (two side-by-side)
  • Clermont-Ferrand roundhouse
  • Colmar roundhouse
  • Damelevieres roundhouse
  • Delémont roundhouse [fr] (two side-by-side), built between 1906 and 1910, Chambéry
  • Dijon roundhouse
  • Grigny roundhouse [fr]
  • Longueau roundhouse [fr]
  • Longueville roundhouse, Longueville, now the "Musée vivant du chemin de fer [fr]"
  • Lyon roundhouses (three)
  • Marseille roundhouses [fr] (three)
  • Miramas roundhouse
  • Modane
  • Montabon roundhouse [fr]
  • Montauban roundhouse
  • Montluçon roundhouse [fr]
  • Moulins roundhouse
  • Mulhouse roundhouse
  • Nevers roundhouse
  • Nogent-Vincennes roundhouse, built in 1849 in Paris-la Villette depot where it was used until it was disassembled in 1859 and then rebuilt at Nogent-Vincennes depot
  • Paris roundhouse
  • Perthuis roundhouse (destroyed)
  • Saint-Étienne roundhouse
  • Strasbourg-Hausbergen roundhouses
  • Sarrebourg roundhouse
  • Thionville roundhouse
  • Toulon roundhouse
  • Valence roundhouse
  • Valenton roundhouse

Germany

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  • Augsburg, museum
  • Bamberg: 2 (both half-demolished and in ruins)
  • Berlin-Pankow-Heinersdorf[4]
  • Berlin-Rummelsburg[5]
  • Dresden: 2 (Plauen, Südvorstadt)
  • Halle (Saale), originally 4, 3 left as one is destroyed in 2017. The one in best condition is now part of the DB Eisenbahn Museum.
  • Hannover still occasionally used
  • Neustrelitz
  • Nürnberg (Bärenschanze): demolished
  • Ottbergen, no longer rail connected
  • Rostock
  • Staßfurt
  • Wittenberge, ruin

Hungary

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Budapest North Depot with turntable
  • Budapest North Depot (now the Hungarian Railway Museum, 2 turntables)
  • Székesfehérvár (operated by MÁV Hungarian State Railway),
  • Dombóvár (operated by MÁV Hungarian State Railway),
  • Szeged Marshalling Yard (operated by MÁV Hungarian State Railway),
  • Pécs (operated by MÁV Hungarian State Railway),
  • Ferencváros (operated by MÁV Hungarian State Railway, turntable with square engine shops),
  • Miskolc Marshalling Yard (operated by MÁV Hungarian State Railway),
  • ...

Indonesia

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Italy

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  • Turin, near Porta Nouva terminal, 2 large roundhouses, one still currently in use by the FS electric locomotive fleet, the other is used as storage for historical equipment, neither accessible to public

Japan

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A roundhouse at Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in Japan

Mexico

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Poland

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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.

The roundhouse at the National Railway Museum Entroncamento in Entroncamento, Portugal

Portugal

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  • Entroncamento Municipality Portuguese National Railway Museum
  • Barreiro "Rotunda das Locomotivas" (Locomotive Roundabout) at the terminal railyard of the Alentejo Railway[6]
  • Castelo Branco "Rotunda das Locomotivas" (Locomotive Roundabout) at the terminal railyard of the Alentejo Railway [7]

Switzerland

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The restored roundhouse in Uster, Switzerland

Sri Lanka

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  • Galle Railway Station
  • Badulla Railway Station

Taiwan

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The Changhua Fan-Shaped Depot in Changhua City, Taiwan

United Kingdom

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Sunderland South Dock locomotive depot

United States

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The roundhouse at Chattanooga Railroad in Atlanta, Georgia

Several of the historic roundhouses in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Alabama

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Arizona

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Arkansas

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California

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Colorado

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Connecticut

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Georgia

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Hawaii

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Illinois

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Indiana

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Iowa

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Kansas

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Maine

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Maryland

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

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Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Roundhouse

Minnesota

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Mississippi

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Missouri

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Montana

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Nebraska

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  • Roundhouse BNSF McCook, Nebraska; turntable demolished
  • Roundhouse (portion) BNSF, Holdredge, NE; no turntable
  • Roundhouse (portion) BNSF, W. Lincoln, NE
  • Roundhouse (split 1/2 circle), BNSF, Chadron, NE

New Hampshire

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New Jersey

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New Mexico

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New York

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North Carolina

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North Dakota

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Ohio

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Pennsylvania

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Rhode Island

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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  • Roundhouse, Bruceton, Tennessee
  • Southern Railway Roundhouse, Knoxville, Tennessee
  • CSX (ex L&N) Radnor Yard, Nashville, Tennessee

Texas

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  • San Antonio, Texas, turntable without roundhouse remains southwest of Duval & Hackberry Streets
  • Cotton Belt Roundhouse, Texarkana, Texas in private hands, turntable gone
  • CB&Q roundhouse, Amarillo, TX disconnected in the 1960s, now commercial property
  • Mineola Texas roundhouse

Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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Wyoming

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References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roundhouses.
  1. ^ "Railway Roundhouse - Heritage Park Historical Village". Archived from the original on 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  2. ^ Roundhouse History, Vancouver
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2014-07-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://oooooo.eu/berlin-pankow-1
  5. ^ http://oooooo.eu/berlin-rummelsburg-1
  6. ^ "Barreiro e Arredores: Rotunda das Máquinas da Cp - Barreiro". 5 August 2011.
  7. ^ "Monumentos".
  8. ^ "Most Endangered 2005 Hawaii Consolidated Railroad Roundhouse". Archived from the original on 2010-12-07. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-06-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ "Midwest Railway Preservation Society". Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  11. ^ "Railway Preservation News • View topic - Williamson roundhouse".
  12. ^ Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office – National Register of Historic Places – Search Result
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