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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Grand Junction Railway LMS Route: Birmingham
New Street to Lichfield LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry
Barr-Birmingham
Aston Shed: lnwra15
Ex-LNWR 2P 0-6-2T No 6935 pauses alongside the parachute
water column ready to take on water on 24th August 1935. Built in March 1902 by
Crewe works No 6935 remained in service until it was withdrawn in June 1946
from Bushbury shed. The term Parachute Water Column was used because of their
supposedly similar look to a parachute. In essence they were a cylindrical
water tank mounted above the locomotive and restricted to feeding one column.
The advantage of this design was that the volume of water required by most
locomotives could be served by the content of one tank or less. This meant that
the filling process could be undertaken in a very short period of time. The
tank would then be refilled from the mains or the main water tank before the
arrival of the next locomotive.
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