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Close up of image 'lnwrcov582' showing part of the vacuum operated turntable and the buffer stops lying just a few feet short of the main line. In the UK from the middle of the 20th century, where steam hauled trains generally have vacuum operated brakes, it was quite common in medium to large engine sheds for turntables to be operated by vacuum motors worked from the locomotive's vacuum ejector or pump via a flexible hose or pipe. Manual turntables were more typically found in smaller sheds whereas electrically operated examples were primarily found in very large engine sheds. Photograph by HW Robinson © Steam Archive
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