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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Hampton in Arden Station: lnwrhia1557

View of a Drott being used to remove stone ballast from the up line adjacent to Hampton in Arden signal box circa 1960s

View of a Drott being used to remove stone ballast from the up line adjacent to Hampton in Arden signal box circa 1960s. The mechanisation of this otherwise labour intensive task resulted in a more rapid replacement operation normally carried out on a Sunday. The Drott enabled the ballast to be fully extracted including the stone which would be pressed into the earth underneath. The wagons alongside are already filled with stone which means that the locomotive in charge of the train would need to draw the wagons forwards.

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