LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

NuneatonStation: lnwrns1727

Another view of Charlie Woodford and his fitters this time posed in front of the valve gear of LMS 5F/4F 2-6-0 No 13113. The size of the cylinders and the driving wheels behind the men show the scale of the task that they had to perform each day. The removal of a nut might require the use of a large spanner weighing several pounds and a sledge hammer to losen the nut.

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