page_title: Train shed
section_title: Early wooden train sheds
hierarchical_section_title: Train shed / Types of train shed / Early wooden train sheds
caption_attribution_description: English: Ashburton railway station in Devon with its typical Brunel roof in 1969.
context_page_description: A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. The first train shed was built in 1830 at Liverpool's Crown Street Station.
  The biggest train sheds were often built as an arch of glass and iron, while the smaller were built as normal pitched roofs.
  The train shed with the biggest single span ever built was that at the second Philadelphia Broad Street Station, built in 1891.
context_section_description: The earliest train sheds were wooden structures, often with unglazed openings to allow smoke and steam to escape. The oldest part of Bristol Temple Meads is a particularly fine – and large – example, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with mock-hammerbeam roof.
  Surviving examples include:
  Ashburton, Devon, England (station closed)
  Bo'ness, Falkirk, Scotland
  Frome, Somerset, England
  Kingswear, Devon, England
  Thurso, Highland, Scotland
  Wick, Highland, Scotland
caption: Ashburton
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