The Steam Depot
by David Birchall
Title
The Steam Depot
Artist
David Birchall
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Behind the scenes at Loughborough locomotive depot on the Great Central heritage railway in Leicestershire, England. The scene shows that working with steam locomotives is dirty, grimy, and probably in an age when safety rules at work were not as stringent as now, could potentially be downright dangerous.
When we see the beautiful preserved, gleaming steam locomotives on our heritage railways we should remember it's all made possible in scenes like this.
Ironically as steam traction was being phased out in the UK it was said that it was virtually impossible to recruit staff because of the dirt, dangers, poor pay and unsocial hours of working with steam locomotives. Now people do it voluntarily on our heritage railways!
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February 9th, 2016
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David Birchall
Thank you very much John for featuring my image in "Images That Excite You", much appreciated.
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