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. 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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