Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, WORSLEY.
A Hudswell Clarke of Leeds, 0-6-0 saddletank, WORSLEY, No. 325 built in 1889, pictured (according to S. W. A. Newton's notes) at Shawell in Leicestershire. WORSLEY was working on Contract No. 3 (Aylestone to Rugby) being constructed by Topham, Jones & Railton between 1894 and 1899. This photograph, taken on 20th March 1897, shows two of the crew members, along with another railway worker, posing on the footplate and a third crew member standing on the front buffer beam. Note the rough tracks in the foreground. See on Route Map
Digital Reference: L1047
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - 1897-03-20
Publisher: Leicestershire County Council
Type: Black and White
Format: 118mm, 161mm
Copyright: Leicestershire County Council
Source: S. W. A. Newton Collection - Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland (part of S. W. A. Newton Collection, copy of glass plate negative)
Identifier: Newton - CL 47
OS Reference: 454000 280000
