GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa Station: gwrls2084b

Another close up of image 'gwrls2084' showing the GWR travelling crane in steam having just arrived from the bridge. The match truck seen on the right would have been used to carry the jib during its move to Leamington from its home depot. The shortness of both jibs indicates that the engineer's department had planned that the two cranes would only require to run alongside the bridge with little need to reach out too far. In the back ground the shed's coaling stage can be seen together with two GWR wagons standing on the ramp with locomotive coal. See image 'misc_equip203' for more information on the steam cranes and match trucks.

Photographer Earnest J Bryan

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