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Last summer Tracy and I spent a week or so in Berlin with, to be honest, mixed results exploration wise. This is the second report from that trip now, a railway maintenance roundhouse in the Pankow district. The roundhouse was used to service locomotives and rolling stock by the former GDR rail company.
Roundhouses are not a recent invention - one of the first ever built was in Derby over here in the UK and the design was so efficient that little has ever changed apart from the size of the building. Basically it is a big circular shed with tracks entering all the way around the circumference like the spokes of a wheel. Engines can be driven in, worked on, and then driven back out on any available track that is desired by virtue of a central turntable.
Tracy and I explored with Rectory Rat on a lovely sunny day.
Roundhouses are not a recent invention - one of the first ever built was in Derby over here in the UK and the design was so efficient that little has ever changed apart from the size of the building. Basically it is a big circular shed with tracks entering all the way around the circumference like the spokes of a wheel. Engines can be driven in, worked on, and then driven back out on any available track that is desired by virtue of a central turntable.
Tracy and I explored with Rectory Rat on a lovely sunny day.
On with the piccies...
A most uninviting and grey building
An impressive structure and the roof is all built with pine planking.
Looking straight up above our heads the ceiling seems to be miles away.
Probably part of a fume extraction system.
Wide angle plus bright sunshine = explosion of colour
What a thoroughly happy chappy
Will and TJ doing their thannnng
A really heavy duty chain hoist.
I hope that the irony of this tagging isn't lost upon you
There is a huge semi-circular maintenance shed next to the roundhouse with further engineering facilities.
Some sort of lifting system
An inspection pit, one of several, used by the engineers to get underneath the locomotives.
An outdoor turntable used for moving locomotives from track to track.
And a final attempt at being arty-farty
That's the lot, thanks for looking.
A most uninviting and grey building
An impressive structure and the roof is all built with pine planking.
Looking straight up above our heads the ceiling seems to be miles away.
Probably part of a fume extraction system.
Wide angle plus bright sunshine = explosion of colour
What a thoroughly happy chappy
Will and TJ doing their thannnng
A really heavy duty chain hoist.
I hope that the irony of this tagging isn't lost upon you
There is a huge semi-circular maintenance shed next to the roundhouse with further engineering facilities.
Some sort of lifting system
An inspection pit, one of several, used by the engineers to get underneath the locomotives.
An outdoor turntable used for moving locomotives from track to track.
And a final attempt at being arty-farty
That's the lot, thanks for looking. 
