Does anyone know if transfer tables were ever used to "park" (for want of a better word) steam loks? Yes, I know that the Chiemseebahn does, but I'm more interested in DB (or DR) practice.

Not that I really care if the answer is "No" [:p]

Due to the need to turn steam locomotives so that they faced the right way, it would have been normal to see a turntable, rather than a transfer table, at steam locomotive sheds.

In the last days of steam, I suppose it may have happened that a steam loco end up in a yard or shed served by a transfer table, but that yard would not have had facilities for servicing steam locos.

On your layout, however, you are King, so if you think it's OK, then it's OK!

Ray

Well in Denmark the usede treansfer tabels as well as turntabels in the town of Fredericia.
In a matter of fact it was a combination unit when the transfertabel was in the mittel position the tabel could turn like a turntabel.

Philip

Dear Gary

I do not know whether transfer tables were ever used to park steam locomotives, but I can tell you that at least in one of the main railway stations in Lisbon there was (maybe there still is) a tranfer table at the end of a group of 3 platforms.

As this is a terminal station, in order to save space (I suppose), instead of using turnouts, there was a transfer table. So, the locomotive arrives at the end of the platform, decouples from the cars, moves to another platform aside and comes back to the other end of the train.

And this was for all locomotives, including steamers. In a previous station (close by), there was a turntable to turn the loco.

So I guess this kind of situation may exist in many terminal stations. Maybe someone else knows about this.

I hope I made myself clear with my explanation.

Best regards,

Nuno

hi gary,
turntables served for two purposes : on the one hand turning locos and on the other switching and serving to the tracks of a classic roundhouse. so the turntable in front of a roundhouse has two functions. there have been turntables without a loco shed just for turning these locos, some of them in 'funny' locations due to restrictions of space.
and transfer tables had been used for steam locos as well, especially in large workshops to bring them to the tracks within the workshop where they were repaired. these workshops were build in a rectangular size, the classic roundhouses were mostly used to 'store' these locos when they were not actually on duty.
i think the use of a turntable without a shed is interesting if the space for a layout is limited because a realistic turntable with shed will occupy about at least 2m x 1m.

Hi all,

Transfertables were indeed used to park steamlocomotives at the German railway system. Not often, buit they exist(ed).

Two famous examples are
Bw Rottweil

They had a turntable too, but there was not sufficient room for a large shed (12 or 15° angles), so there was a rectangular shed too, serviced in between in open air by a transfertable. See picture :


and
Bw Hagen-Eckesey
This was a huge rectangular shed (in the middle of the town) with only one entrance and one exit. The turntable was pranged outside between two walls, with no shed or waiting tracks.
Inside that hall you had a transfertable in its centre. I have tried to find pics, but could not trace them immediately
The exit, immediately from the transfertable (under roof!)



entrance in the good old days (behind the smoke of the P8 38 3444) :




entrance in later years (behind the loc) :





Bw Hamm also had one :


Bw Haltern (what is remaining from the control house
http://www.lostareas.de/.../BW_Haltern/Haltern6.htm

Hope it helps you, Ozzman


Bob

You are right, Gary ! I would not do this too

But the Hagen depot is quite exciting for one way or another. I add another (well known) picture of the coal system. To the left is the shed.



Bw Hamm may be the good solution for you

Here a picture in Bw Hamm, 15 July 1972. (Locs 044 687, 050 233 en 094 149. Foto Rob van der Rest.)

Note the edge of the transfertable pit, and the carrier rail



Best wishes,

Bob

The Ipswich Railway workshop has a transfer table to park locos in a workshop..

For those having trouble retrieving the last pic, here is it again :






yours,

Bob

It is not an Image but an URL

Nev

Click on my post. No Problems.
nev

Gents - I think space may dictate that I use a transfer table and workshop rather than a turntable and roundhouse. The pictures in this thread are a great incentive. My question is - does anyone have any experience good or bad with the Marklin transfer table?

Regards,

JonnyMac