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Pyewipe Junction engine shed was a motive power depot operated by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) located in Lincolnshire, England. The depot was one of the GER's outposts and was located on the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway (GNGEJR) a few miles west of Lincoln railway station. (This map of Lincoln's railways ) shows Pyewipe Junction in the top left hand corner. It is also the junction for the "avoiding line" towards Newark and Nottingham, which in 2013 is still generally used by freight services or trains diverted by engineering works on the East Coast Main Line which do not call at Lincoln station. ==Opening== The Great Eastern and Great Northern operated a joint railway line (the GNGEJR) linking the Yorkshire coalfields to East Anglia and London. Largely a freight railway, it is known that the GER ran trains to York railway station, although they eventually came to an arrangement with the North Eastern Railway (NER), where the GER locomotive was replaced at Lincoln by a NER locomotive. The GER engine would have then proceeded to Pyewipe Junction engine shed for coaling and watering. The GNGEJR reached Pyewipe Junction in 1882, where some sidings were established. By 1886 some locomotive sidings and a water column had been installed and in 1897 the LD&ECR was opened, which gave the GER running powers over that line as well. Mention of an engine shed at the junction appears in GER minutes in 1899 but nothing appeared to have been built until 1907 or 1908. The four-track shed was about 150 feet long and 50 feet wide. It was located north of the running line and south of the Foss Dyke Navigation. By 1912 an additional siding was added. In 1914 50 men were recorded as working at the shed. During World War I the increased need for coal saw traffic on the GNGEJR rise, and the sidings and engine shed at Pyewipe Junction were extremely busy. Locomotive coaling was undertaken by hand and although a turntable is evident on plans of the site, it is not known whether it was installed when the shed opened. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pyewipe Junction engine shed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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