LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk3783

Ex-LNWR 1P 2-4-2T No 6754, sometimes referred to as a 5 foot 6 inch radial tank engine, departs Kenilworth station with a Leamington to Nuneaton service circa 1938. This photograph has Gordon Coltas' name on the back but without doubt it is one of HJ Stretton-Wards photographs the negatives of which were, on his death in the 1950s, sold by Stretton-Ward's lover (who lived with S-W and his wife!!) to Gordon. Built as LNWR No 1451 by Crewe works in May 1897, No 6754 was allocated its LMS number in May 1927 which it carried until December 1947, the last month of the LMS' independence prior to nationalisation, to be scrapped.

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