The following views are taken from inside Wabtec Rail's Wheel Shop. This facility is housed within the original Erecting Shop building dating from 1853. This is the very spot where over five hundred Patrick Stirling designed locomotives where built, including the now famous 'Singles' with their revolutionary 8ft diameter wheels.
Since the heady days of large scale locomotive construction, the erecting shop has been put to a number of uses including the manufacture of munitions during the Great War
Today the shop deals with over 10,000 wheel sets a year.
