Railway Roundhouse, Leeds and Thomas Grainger blue plaque — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: The Railway Roundhouse was built in 1847 to accommodate 20 locomotives or the Leeds & Thirsk Railway. The adjacent crescent-shaped repair shop, forges and fitting shops were used to build and maintain locomotives until 1904. No comparable group of railway buildings now survives in this country. Designed by Thomas Grainger. Recorded plaque organisation: Leeds Civic Trust.

Thomas Grainger was a prominent British civil engineer who designed the Railway Roundhouse in Leeds in 1847, which is significant for its innovative design and as one of the few surviving examples of early railway maintenance facilities in Britain.

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