Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot

Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot was a large locomotive depot consisting of two roundhouse buildings and associated facilities constructed by the New South Wales Government Railways adjacent to the marshalling yard on the Main North railway line at Broadmeadow. Construction of the locomotive depot at Broadmeadow commenced in 1923 to replace the existing crowded loco sheds at Woodville Junction at Hamilton, with the depot opening in March 1924.Original facilitiesOriginal facilities proved included a single manually operated 23 m diameter turntable with 42 radiating roads. Twenty one of these roads were covered by a wooden framed roundhouse building clad in corrugated sheeting. All 21 roads in the roundhouse had 18 m long pits, radial drop pits were fitted to all 21 roads. Two elevated Template:Convert/LoffAonDflipSoffImp tanks fed three 229 mm diameter water columns. An office for the District Locomotive Engineer was constructed using concrete drop panels. An office building for the Superintendent, Steam Shed Inspector, Timkeepers & Clerks was built near the water tanks along with a rest barracks for crews from other depots that was located near the depot, with both of these buildings also using the concrete drop panel method of construction.Coaling was provided by a Template:Convert/LoffAoffDflipSonNa capacity wooden elevated coal bunker capable of loading coal to locos on both sides. The coaling stage was long by 11 m high and was served by an 1:30 grade approach ramp. The coal bunker was also provided with storage and drying facilities for sand, with two wet sand bunkers of capacity and two dry sand bunkers of capacity being provided. A timber framed machine shop clad in corrugated iron served from one of the radial roads from No.1 turntable was also provided. This building housed the wheel lathe as well as general lathes and other machine tools for use in maintaining the locomotives based at the depot. Also housed in this building was a blacksmiths section and the air compressors for supplying compressed air to the depot, along with the pumps for the boiler washing out plant. A timber framed corrugated iron clad meal room for running staff capable of housing 140 men was also built near the workshop.