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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns3800

An unidentified ex-LNWR 0-8-2T locomotive is seen standing on one of the two Nuneaton humps used on the up sidings

An unidentified ex-LNWR 0-8-2T locomotive is seen standing on one of the two Nuneaton humps used on the up sidings. Peter Lee writes on Nuneaton Steam Club's Facebook page, 'this is an extremely rare photograph of the back hump at Nuneaton, so I apologise for the quality. It isn't well known there were two humps in the up yard because of the intensity of the work. One was removed in the 1930s. We had a couple of these tank versions of the Super D at Nuneaton for hump shunting'. The locomotive was a member of the LNWR 1185 Class designed by Charles Bowen-Cooke and introduced in 1911. They passed into LMS ownership in 1923 and eight survived to British Railways ownership in 1948. They were numbered by British Railways numbers as No 47875 to No 47896 but with gaps. They were designed as heavy shunting tank engines and thirty such locomotives were built at Crewe from 1911 to 1917. The intended duties were take over workings which previously needed two locomotives. They were essentially a tank version of the 'G' class 0-8-0s. When introduced they had the then new style of 12 inch letters of the company's initials on the tank sides. They were fitted with saturated 'Precursor' class boilers with lagged ends, round-top fireboxes, and sloping coal bunkers. The main wheels were coupled by three overlapping rods and the third pair of wheels were flangeless. Lever actuated Joy reversing gear appeared in-lieu of the normal Ramsbottom screw system. The earlier engines initially had slender tapered Cooke buffers but these were replaced by those of standard Webb pattern which were also fitted from new on later engines. Braking was by steam, but vacuum brakes were provided to operate fitted or passenger stock if required.

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