Riverside Works repair shop ‘C’
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The Riverside Works is about half the size of Swindon Works before its end.
I’ve been gathering drawings of Swindon Works to create how Riverside Works would look, given that it was the Great Western Railway who built both the works.
Even though it is smaller than Swindon Works, it still has the capacity of around 50-70 locomotives at one time with 8 engine sheds and three repair shops.
If I were to model the innards of the Riverside Works, it would have to be Repair Shop ‘C’ because it is much smaller. It is a two road shed connected to the boiler works, It has the capacity for only 4 larger locomotives and It’s the area where the locomotives are taken apart and put back together over a longer period of time. The locomotives that have more specialist and rare parts come here instead of Repair Shop ‘A’ or ‘B’ because it would take longer to make the parts for these locos.
Repair Shop ‘A’ and ‘B’ are Traversing Shops (which I think is the right name) this is where a loco enters the shop at one end and moves along to the other, undergoing whatever repair it needs, like overhaul or just a boiler replacement. ‘A’ is faster than ‘B’, with locos being completed in just under a week minus re-painting. ‘B’ is for more extensive work like overhauls and usually completes a locomotive in a month or so. ‘C’ is the slowest and only specialises on rarer locomotives, usual time finishing them in two to three months depending on how fast the parts are made.
The funny thing is that, despite the addition of computer assistance, there are still a couple of thousand people who work here on various jobs. Just over a quarter of Castle Rock’s population work at the works, providing admin or metalworking or paint-working skills.
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