LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs14a

ExROD 2-8-0 class 04 /3 No 63739 is seen in typically dirty condition. The railways suffered from a shortage of labour because the work was hard, had anti-social hours and was poorly paid. The luxury of having cleaners, other than for the odd passenger train, was something that most sheds hadn't seen since the 1930s.

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