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A motive power depot (MPD) is primarily a facility for housing locomotives, with all repair and maintenance tasks exclusively handled at larger locomotive works.
Answer: False
Motive power depots typically contain workshops for day-to-day repairs and maintenance, not just housing, although major overhauls are performed at larger locomotive works.
In American English, the term 'depot' generally refers to passenger stations or freight facilities, not vehicle maintenance facilities.
Answer: True
The source states that in American English, 'depot' usually refers to passenger stations or freight facilities, not vehicle maintenance facilities.
Essential services provided at motive power depots include refuelling, replenishing water, lubricating oil, grease, and for steam engines, ash disposal.
Answer: True
Motive power depots provide crucial services such as refuelling, replenishing water, lubricating oil, grease, and for steam engines, ash disposal.
Stabling and fuelling points are considered full engine sheds because they offer comprehensive repair and maintenance capabilities.
Answer: False
Stabling and fuelling points are not considered full engine sheds because they lack comprehensive repair and maintenance capabilities.
What is an alternative name for a motive power depot (MPD) that specifically refers to its maintenance function?
Answer: Traction maintenance depot (TMD).
A motive power depot (MPD) is also known as a traction maintenance depot (TMD), locomotive depot, running shed, or engine shed.
Which of the following services is typically NOT performed at a motive power depot, but rather at larger locomotive works?
Answer: Major overhauls and locomotive construction.
Major overhauls and locomotive construction are typically performed at larger locomotive works, not at motive power depots.
What is the key difference that distinguishes 'stabling and fuelling points' from full engine sheds?
Answer: Stabling and fuelling points lack comprehensive repair and maintenance capabilities.
Stabling and fuelling points are not considered full engine sheds because they lack the comprehensive repair and maintenance capabilities of a motive power depot.
Ash removal was a clean and efficient process at all steam engine sheds, typically performed during peak operational hours.
Answer: False
Ash removal was a dirty task, often performed during quieter periods, and historical photographs indicate piles of ash were frequently scattered around depot sites.
Boiler washouts were regularly performed on steam locomotives to remove scale buildup, which improved efficiency and ensured safe operation.
Answer: True
Boiler washouts were regularly performed on steam locomotives to remove scale buildup, which was crucial for improving efficiency and ensuring safe operation.
Coaling locomotives was initially a manual process before becoming mechanized with the construction of large coaling towers.
Answer: True
Initially, coaling locomotives was a manual process, with depots maintaining large coal stacks, before becoming mechanized with the construction of coaling towers.
Tender locomotives required turning to ensure they faced the correct direction for their next duty.
Answer: True
Tender locomotives required turning to ensure they faced the correct direction for their next duty.
Which of the following was a primary activity at engine sheds during the steam era?
Answer: Coaling.
Coaling was one of the six primary activities conducted at engine sheds during the steam era.
What was a characteristic of ash removal at steam engine sheds?
Answer: It was a dirty task, often performed during quieter periods.
Ash removal was a dirty task, often performed during quieter periods, and historical photographs indicate piles of ash were frequently scattered around depot sites.
What was the main reason for regularly performing boiler washouts on steam locomotives?
Answer: To remove scale buildup, improving efficiency and ensuring safe operation.
Boiler washouts were regularly performed to remove scale buildup, which was crucial for improving efficiency and ensuring safe operation.
How did coaling locomotives typically begin before becoming mechanized?
Answer: As a manual process using large, neatly constructed coal stacks.
Initially, coaling locomotives was a manual process, with depots maintaining large, neatly constructed coal stacks.
What was the primary reason tender locomotives required turning?
Answer: To ensure they faced the correct direction for their next duty.
Tender locomotives required turning to ensure they faced the correct direction for their next duty.
During the steam era, engine sheds were commonly found in many towns, cities, and rural areas, built to support local train services.
Answer: True
During the steam era, engine sheds were prevalent in many towns, cities, and rural areas, built by railway companies to support local train services.
Mexborough engine shed primarily housed passenger locomotives due to its industrial surroundings.
Answer: False
Mexborough engine shed predominantly housed freight locomotives due to the area's industrial nature, not passenger locomotives.
Shunting locomotives at steam era depots were typically 0-4-0T or 0-6-0T tank engines.
Answer: True
Nearly all depots in the steam era had shunting locomotives, which were usually 0-4-0T or 0-6-0T tank engines.
Only railway companies maintained engine sheds; industrial sites relied on railway company depots for all shunting needs.
Answer: False
Many large industrial sites connected to the rail network also maintained their own engine sheds for shunting locomotives.
The three fundamental architectural designs for engine sheds were the roundhouse, the straight shed, and the dead end shed.
Answer: True
The three basic architectural designs for engine sheds were the roundhouse, the straight shed, and the dead end shed.
Turntables for all engine shed designs, including roundhouses, were always located outside the main shed structure.
Answer: False
While turntables for straight and dead end sheds were generally outside, in roundhouses, turntables could be either inside or outside the main shed structure.
Engine sheds were equipped to handle all types of repairs, including major overhauls and locomotive construction.
Answer: False
Engine sheds performed basic maintenance and some complex repairs, but locomotives requiring extensive repair or construction were dispatched to dedicated locomotive works.
A sub-shed in the UK railway system was a smaller, auxiliary depot with fewer facilities than a main engine shed.
Answer: True
In the UK, a sub-shed was a smaller, auxiliary depot associated with a main engine shed, typically having fewer facilities.
During the steam era, what determined an engine shed's allocation of locomotives?
Answer: The specific duties required in its region.
Each engine shed's allocation of locomotives reflected the specific duties required in its region.
Which of the following locomotive types were commonly used for shunting duties at engine depots during the steam era?
Answer: 0-4-0T or 0-6-0T tank engines.
Shunting locomotives at steam era depots were usually 0-4-0T or 0-6-0T tank engines.
What type of facility, besides railway companies, often maintained engine sheds for shunting locomotives?
Answer: Large industrial sites connected to the rail network.
Many large industrial sites connected to the rail network also maintained their own engine sheds for shunting locomotives.
Which of the following is NOT one of the three fundamental architectural designs for engine sheds?
Answer: The diagonal shed.
The three basic architectural designs for engine sheds were the roundhouse, the straight shed, and the dead end shed.
Where were turntables for straight and dead end sheds generally located?
Answer: Outside the main shed structure.
Turntables for straight and dead end sheds were generally located outside the main shed structure.
What types of repairs were typically handled at engine sheds, with more extensive work sent elsewhere?
Answer: Basic maintenance and more complex repairs, but not extensive overhauls.
Engine sheds performed basic maintenance, with larger sheds capable of more complex repairs, but extensive overhauls were sent to dedicated locomotive works.
What was a 'sub-shed' in the UK railway system?
Answer: A smaller, auxiliary depot with fewer facilities, associated with a main shed.
In the UK, a sub-shed was a smaller, auxiliary depot associated with a main engine shed, typically having fewer facilities.
German Bahnbetriebswerke (Bw) are equivalent to motive power depots and handle all major repairs and overhauls for locomotives.
Answer: False
While Bahnbetriebswerke (Bw) are equivalent to motive power depots, major repairs and overhauls in Germany are carried out at Ausbesserungswerke, not Bw facilities.
The transition from steam to diesel and electric traction led to a significant increase in the number of Bahnbetriebswerk facilities in Germany.
Answer: False
The number of Bahnbetriebswerk facilities in Germany significantly decreased with the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction.
All modern diesel locomotives, including those in the UK, require turntables for directional changes.
Answer: False
Many modern diesel locomotives in the UK feature cabs at both ends, eliminating the need for turning, though turntables are still used for single-ended diesels in other regions.
Maintaining diesel locomotives in old, dirty steam sheds was generally straightforward and presented few challenges.
Answer: False
Maintaining diesel locomotives in old, dirty steam sheds proved difficult, leading to the construction of many new diesel depots.
Early diesel locomotives required water for their steam generators, which were used for train heating.
Answer: True
Early diesel locomotives still required water for their steam generators, which were used for train heating.
Following the privatization of British Rail, some depots are now operated by train builders who maintain trains under contract with train operating companies.
Answer: True
Following the privatization of British Rail, some depots are now operated by train builders who maintain trains under contract with train operating companies.
What is the German term for the equivalent of a motive power depot?
Answer: Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw).
In German-speaking countries, the equivalent of a motive power depot is called a Bahnbetriebswerk, or Bw.
What happened to the number of Bahnbetriebswerk facilities in Germany with the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction?
Answer: They significantly decreased.
The number of Bahnbetriebswerk facilities in Germany significantly decreased with the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction.
In which countries are turntables still in use for single-ended diesel locomotives?
Answer: Australia and America.
Turntables remain in use in Australia and America for single-ended diesel locomotives.
What was a significant challenge when maintaining diesel locomotives in old steam sheds?
Answer: The dirty environment of steam sheds made diesel maintenance difficult.
Maintaining diesel locomotives in the dirty steam sheds proved difficult, leading to the construction of new diesel depots.
After the privatization of British Rail, who now operates some depots and maintains trains under contract?
Answer: Train builders.
Following the privatization of British Rail, some depots are now operated by train builders who maintain trains under contract.
Drivers and firemen often contributed to a shed's reputation for clean locomotives, with some companies offering prizes for the best-kept engines.
Answer: True
Drivers and firemen often determined a shed's reputation for clean locomotives, with some companies offering prizes for the best-kept engines.
In the UK, footplate staff (drivers and firemen) generally belonged to the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, which later became the National Union of Railwaymen.
Answer: False
In the UK, footplate staff (drivers and firemen) generally belonged to ASLEF, while other engine shed staff typically joined the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
The modernization of railway facilities in the mid-20th century was partly driven by staff leaving for better conditions and pay in the manufacturing industry.
Answer: True
The exodus of staff to the manufacturing industry, which offered better working conditions and pay, prompted railway companies to modernize their facilities.
How did drivers and firemen often contribute to the reputation of engine sheds?
Answer: By their dedication to keeping locomotives clean.
Drivers and firemen often determined a shed's reputation for clean locomotives through their dedication to keeping them clean.
Which union represented footplate staff (drivers and firemen) in the UK from the 19th century?
Answer: ASLEF.
In the UK, footplate staff (drivers and firemen) generally belonged to ASLEF.
The image of the Worcester Locomotive Depot from April 1959 provides a historical glimpse into these facilities in the United States.
Answer: False
The image of the Worcester Locomotive Depot from April 1959 depicts a historical facility in the United Kingdom, not the United States.
The Morinomiya Depot on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line is presented as a typical example of a third-rail subway depot.
Answer: True
The Morinomiya Depot on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line is presented as a typical example of a third-rail subway depot.
What does the image of Worcester Locomotive Depot from April 1959 depict?
Answer: A historical steam locomotive depot in the United Kingdom.
The image shows the Worcester Locomotive Depot in the United Kingdom as it appeared in April 1959.
The image of the roundhouse in Rockhill, Pennsylvania, illustrates a common design for locomotive maintenance facilities featuring what?
Answer: An outdoor turntable.
The image of the roundhouse in Rockhill, Pennsylvania, features an outdoor turntable, illustrating a common design for locomotive maintenance facilities.
What does the image of the Inlandsbanan Water crane suggest about its distribution?
Answer: Similar cranes were found at both engine sheds and railway stations.
The image of the Inlandsbanan Water crane suggests that similar cranes were found at both engine sheds and railway stations, indicating widespread use.
The Morinomiya Depot on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line is presented as a typical example of what kind of facility?
Answer: A third-rail subway depot.
The Morinomiya Depot on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line is presented as a typical example of a third-rail subway depot.