Do Ilford car sheds (1960) mean anything to anyone?
Not being in the UK, and taking in to account slight differences in terminology, I’ll venture a guess the at a place known as Ilford there were what we in the US rail vernacular would call “car barns”, which are either repair shops for for freight and passenger cars or storage places for the cable cars of San Francisco, Ca., which is also referred to as a car barn. I’m not sure, but it would seem logical that this term is applied to street and trolley cars as well. There was a time when street cars in the larger cities of the US employed horse teams for power, and would head to the barn, literally. When the word “barn” stands alone in US rail terminology, it means a building or place where locomotives are serviced or “tied up” (aka stabled), as in being “headed for the barn.” Much US railroad terminology comes from terms of the western stage coach lines of the old west. This is where the terms used above stem from; “Tie-ing up” the horses or taking them to “the barn.” Lesser known, the
