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THE RUNNING OF A LOCOMOTIVE 



WHEN quite ready for regular duty a 

 locomotive will be allotted to a shed, a shed 

 being the railway name for a locomotive 

 depot. Here there will be stabled many 

 engines of different classes, from the neat 

 tank engine to the huge express monster, 

 though there are some sheds which stable 

 goods engines only. Locomotive sheds are 

 placed at important centres on the main 

 and branch lines, and they have a number 

 which the locomotives bear. The North- 

 Western engines used to carry their shed 

 numbers on the edge of the cab roof, but 

 if you saw the Rugby shed number on 

 an engine, say, at Coventry, it would 

 not follow that the engine was actually 

 stabled at Rugby. What happens is that 

 the big sheds have little sheds under their 

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