page_title: York engine sheds and locomotive works
section_title: York Queen Street Works
hierarchical_section_title: York engine sheds and locomotive works / Locomotive and rolling stock works / York Queen Street Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Extract of Ordnance Survey town plan for York. Sheet 11 Survey of 1851 Some retouching Full map at www.davidrumsey.com "Sheet 11: Plan of York, 1852 " [1]
context_page_description: There were a number of engine sheds and railway works located in York. The large York North engine shed became the National Railway Museum in 1975.
context_section_description: In 1839 a small repair shop was opened on Queen Street by the York and North Midland Railway.  This expanded, and by 1849 it was repairing significant numbers of locomotives. In the early days of the railway engines, locomotives required more repairs as this was an emerging technology. Also, as the technology developed, many older locomotives were updated at this location. The work on engines was carried on in York until about 1905. The works also carried out construction and repair of carriages and wagons and by 1864 was producing 100 wagons per week.
  Most locomotives constructed on the site were put together by contractors rather than built by the York and North Midland Railway. The York and North Midland Railway was merged with several other railway companies to form the North Eastern Railway in 1853.
  In 1865 the North Eastern Railway decided that the facilities for wagon production were outdated and a new facility was built adjacent to the freight avoiding line (see below).
  The North Eastern Railway decided in the late 1870s to concentrate carriage building on a new site in York at Holgate Road (see below).
  A plan of the site dated 1901, shows the various workshops on the site which included:
  Two erecting shops
  Patternmakers shop
  Paint shop
  Cylinder shop
  Fitting shop
  Machine shop
  Cylinder shop
  Coppersmiths shop
  Boiler shop
  Blacksmiths shop
  Foundry
  Brass finishers
  There were also a number of stores, offices and boiler houses on the site.
  Work on locomotive repairs continued until 1905. In conjunction with the re-modelling at the south end of York station in 1908/1909, the old boiler shop was converted into an engine shed and this site was then used by locomotives from visiting railways such as the Midland, Great Central and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. A new 60-foot turntable was fitted at this time. With the grouping in 1923, Great Northern and Great Central locomotives were dealt with at York North (as they were both constituent parts of the London and North Eastern Railway).
  During this period each company had a number of staff allocated to the depot. For instance the Great Eastern Railway had a complement of seven staff in 1917 led by a boiler washer.
  In 1925 after the centenary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway the London & North Eastern Railway established a railway museum on the site using the former erecting shops. Remaining visiting LMS locomotives were thereafter dealt with at York South.
  The railway museum closed in 1973 in preparation for the opening of the National Railway Museum in 1975.
  The turntable still survived in 1976, but disappeared when the area was converted into car parking space.
  Many of the buildings are still in existence on the site including the main erecting shops which are in use as a gym.
caption: Queen Street Works c.1850 (left). South of York-Normanton mainline ; green lines are boundaries
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