GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line

Moor Street Station: gwrms1213

View of a demonstration showing how wagons are moved by using a combination of powered and dumb capstans in conjunction with wire ropes. The wagon, which is the same seen in image 'gwrms1211', has a wire rope attached to a chain which in turn is fastened to an axle guard. The railway worker operates a lever which turns the powered capstan to pull the wagon forward. If the wagon needed pulling away from the powered capstan the wire rope would have been passed around a dumb capstan ahead of the wagon before fastening it to the wagon.

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