It also had potential maintenance benefits because most of the conjugation mechanism was located outside the locomotive frames and could thus be accessed without an inspection pit.
22.
In addition there are coaling and sanding facilities, water cranes, a working jack for inspection pits and a range of other equipment found in an operational depot.
23.
The two centre tracks had inspection pits, but the depot was not suitable for maintenance and repairs, this work having to be done at the Maxton Depot.
24.
The line now includes two bridges which go over the top, as well as an engine shed, inspection pit and two locomotives which operate at the site.
25.
Also visible in this image is an inspection pit where maintenance workers can view the undersides of rolling stock; and further back in the image is a turntable and roundhouse.
26.
Beyer, Peacock-built no . 2994 is preserved at the Worcester Museum at Kleinplasie, where it is displayed astride the locomotive inspection pit in the old locomotive shed.
27.
The site also houses inspection pits, offices, and a canteen in one-and two-storey brick buildings filling the angle as Binfield Road turn past to the south.
28.
Currently on the left side of the fort there is a military unit, related to the 219 th Regiment REB, but available for inspection pits, gorge barracks and right single trunk.
29.
It is possible that the cast iron, fish-bellied rails on either side of the inspection pit form the oldest length of railway line in the world still in its original position.
30.
All evidence of the railway yard has been erased with exception of a loading bank, the stockyard platform and the remains of the locomotive inspection pit on the site of the old loco depot.
