Bus Turntables

[Talltim]

The site of the old Jersey Eastern Railway terminus at Snow Hill, St. Helier, was fitted with a turntable when it was converted to a bus depot after the railway closed. As far as I'm aware it's the only railway station to have acquired a turntable after permanent closure to all rail traffic!

Pics

http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/File:TurntableBus1949.jpg

http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/File:Turntable1960s.jpg

http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/File:DoubleDeckerTurntable.jpg

[tamperman36]

I remember seeing a photo in a book once of the fore mentioned unfortunate Huddersfield trolley bus sat on its rear end off the back of the turntable.

[PhilJ W]

You can now have a turntable fitted to your drive.

[alastairq]

At one time, I drove for United Automobile Services Ltd, out of their Scarborough depot.

 

The depot was a 2 storey affair....with deckers upstairs, and saloons downstairs.

 

The lower depot had a turntable installed [don't know when, off hand].....to turn the buses in order to have them parked efficiently, in the confined space. [there were steel pillars supporting the upper floor, at inconvenient spacings...I know, I hit one once!!]

 

The turntable was present when I worked there, but not used.

[alastairq]

 

Pinched from Google, doorway view of upper depot..the lower depot entrance is located down the road, on the right of the photo, at the end of the hedgerow..  The back end of a tanker is seen parked in the entrance.

 

I drove for United from 1974.to  1975, moving to East Yorkshire {EYMS],  Bridlington, at the back end of 1975..until circa 1980.....then back at Scarborough [united ] around 1981-2....until the company was donated to EYMS upon the Great Privatisation......the introduction of minibuses...with the subsequent destruction of drivers' T&Cs....saw me being moved to EYMS Driffield depot...where I stayed until 1997....