The GWR immediately made the CR / LNWR engine shed its divisional base for the new Oswestry locomotive division, allocating it code : OSW . In 1929, the GWR improved the facilities, adding electric lighting to the entire complex, extra inspection pits, and a GWR standard-pattern single-ramp coaling stage.
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This plant was constructed to the West of No . 2 Roundhouse and was used to treat the " dirty water " from the shed pits etc . In 1987 a 3 road railcar maintenance centre was built on the site of the depot's arrival road inspection pits, coal stage embankment and stores building.
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E Keynes Purchase, honorary architect to what was to become the Royal Automobile Club, did a lot of work on them and recommended in " The Car Illustrated " in 1902, that they be of brick construction with cement floor, an inspection pit, good electric lighting and a pulley system for removing parts of the car ( in the early days of motoring many car owners were mechanical and engineering enthusiasts ).
