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Fire cleaning of 1856 at Rosmead depot
A railwayman scrapes the remains of the fire out of the firebox of locomotive 1856 at Rosmead depot, South Africa, in August 1979. This process, sometimes called "dumping the fire", is part of shutting down a steam locomotive for storage and/or maintenance.
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