LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk155

A pair of ex-LNWR 2F 0-6-0 'Cauliflower' locomotives are seen leaving Kenilworth station at the head a local passenger service to Coventry with approximately eight coaches behind their tenders in 1938. The locomotives were recorded on the photo as No 8519 and No 8430 but as Harry Jack of the LNWR Society writes 'I'm sure one of the engine numbers must have been taken down wrongly, as the withdrawal dates all seem to be known, and (so far as I can see) watertight'. The two sets of tracks on the right provided both access to Kenilworth goods yard as well as providing a refuge loop siding for passing slow moving goods trains that needed to be shunted out of the paths of the much more important and faster passenger services.

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