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unusual facts about bus garage



Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal.


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Oslogjengen

In August 1944 an operation against a bus garage resulted in the destruction of 25 Messerschmitt fighters and 150 airplane motors.

Port Erin railway station

Housed in a former bus garage the Port Erin Railway Museum was opened in 1975 and houses a number of exhibits charting the history of the railway from its beginnings to the present day; prior to its opening the goods shed (which today houses the associated souvenir shop and entrance hall) had acted as locomotive shed for several years, whilst two out of service locomotives (Nos.

Setright Machine

In 1955 it occupied Eastway Works, Eastway, Hackney Wick, London E9 and later moved in 1967 to the Fairfield Works, Fairfield Road, Bow, London E3, suitably adjacent to the London Transport bus garage, although LT used the Gibson Machine (produced by Ticket Equipment Ltd, based on the TIM system).

West Midlands Warwick Road bus Corridor

The service was first upgraded with Volvo double deckers (which have since been cascaded to West Bromwich Bus Garage), then in 2004 the route got single decker Volvo B10L (which in turn got cascaded to use on route 28 and 28A when Perry Barr garage withdrew the MCW vehicles in 2007).