Wick Shed
Location type
Loco shedName and dates
Wick ShedWhere: Highland
Opened on the Sutherland and Caithness Railway.
Description
This two road shed was located south of the station, goods yard and livestock sidings. It was approached from the west.
Locomotives passed through the shed, or used a siding to the south of the shed, to reach the turntable. (A line north of the shed was added later.)
The turntable was enlarged twice. For the second replacement the 55 ft turntable was transferred from Daviot to Wick in 1902 (Daviot had been a temporary northern terminus of the line from Aviemore from 1897 to 1989 when it was completed to Inverness).
Wick shed was assigned the code 60D by British Railways, with Thurso Shed as a sub shed.
The shed still exists, in re-built form, as a supermarket.
Tags
Shed
| Nearby stations Wick Thrumster Bilbster Welsh^s Crossing Halt Ulbster Watten Mid Clyth Roster Road Halt Occumster Bower Parkside Halt Lybster Georgemas Junction Hoy Halkirk | Quarry Bridge of Wester Lybster Engine Shed Spittal Mains Quarry Tourist/other Wick Heritage Museum Pulteney Distillery Wick Bay Castle of Old Wick Loch Hempriggs Cairns of Yarrows Broch Loch of Wester Cairn o^Get Grey Cairns of Camster Loch Watten Hill O^ Many Stanes |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1962 | Sutherland and Caithness Railway Helmsdale Shed and Wick Shed closed. |
Books
 Highland Survivor |
