Contractors' 0-6-0 saddletank locomotive, COREA.
Manning Wardle & Co. 'K' class 0-6-0 saddletank, COREA, (No. 971) of 1885. The locomotive is seen on 7th June 1897 with its crew in a cutting near Calvert in Buckinghamshire, when working on Contract No. 6 - the Brackley to Quainton Road section built by Walter Scott & Company. Of interest are the locomotive's wooden dumb buffers and the flags that it carries on the smokebox and cab. See on Route Map
Digital Reference: L1003
Creator: Newton, S. W. A. - 1897-06-07
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 3
OS Reference: 468800 224300
