Hayes Knoll railway station
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Hayes Knoll railway station is found on the heritage Swindon and Cricklade Railway
in Wiltshire, England.
Hayes Knoll station was built, with an engineering workshop and locomotive shed, at a place where the original railway trackbed between Swindon and Cricklade includes an additional piece of land in railway ownership. It thus provides an initial destination for trains from Blunsdon railway station
, plus engineering facilities required to operate the railway. There is no access to Hayes Knoll station except by train.
The locomotive depot consists of 5 'roads' that are accessed by means of a headshunt to the north of the depot where Hayes Oak sidings are. The Second road is primarily for the use of steam locomotives and as such has two inspection pits (one indoors, one outdoors), a watering column and areas to drop ash, store tools and keep wood. The rest of the roads are for the use of both carriages and locomotives. The roads outside the depot building are mainly for storage of wagons required to run the depot such as wagon mounted water and diesel tanks, the septic tank for the toilets, coal wagons and other items of rolling stock necessary to keep the depot functioning.
Swindon and Cricklade Railway
The Swindon & Cricklade Railway is a heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, that operates on a short section of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade.-History:...
in Wiltshire, England.
Hayes Knoll station was built, with an engineering workshop and locomotive shed, at a place where the original railway trackbed between Swindon and Cricklade includes an additional piece of land in railway ownership. It thus provides an initial destination for trains from Blunsdon railway station
Blunsdon railway station
Blunsdon railway station is a heritage railway station serving the village of Blunsdon, north of Swindon in Wiltshire, England.It was one of the last to be opened by the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in 1895 on a railway that had opened in 1883. It was little more than a...
, plus engineering facilities required to operate the railway. There is no access to Hayes Knoll station except by train.
The locomotive depot consists of 5 'roads' that are accessed by means of a headshunt to the north of the depot where Hayes Oak sidings are. The Second road is primarily for the use of steam locomotives and as such has two inspection pits (one indoors, one outdoors), a watering column and areas to drop ash, store tools and keep wood. The rest of the roads are for the use of both carriages and locomotives. The roads outside the depot building are mainly for storage of wagons required to run the depot such as wagon mounted water and diesel tanks, the septic tank for the toilets, coal wagons and other items of rolling stock necessary to keep the depot functioning.