The Turnaround

As long as short-wheelbase locomotives such as the 1000-class 4-6-0's were working The Sussex Branch, they could be turned on the 57-foot turntable adjacent to the station at Branchville. With the replacement of these locomotives on the branch by the larger 1100-class 4-6-2's in the early forties, it became necessary to construct a "wye" to the east of Branchville so that he locomotives could be turned. In this view, No.1012 is on the turntable in September 1936.