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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Nuneaton Shed: lnwrns3841
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LNWR 0-8-2T No 1663 stands in line in front of the shed with
other miscellaneous locomotives circa 1914. Peter Lee writes that two other
1185 Class locomotives, No 1090 and No 1494, were also based at Nuneaton to aid
shunting during the First World War. One of a class of thirty locomotives
designed by CJ Bowen-Cooke, they were built at Crewe from 1911 to 1917. They
were intended for heavy shunting duties being carried by a pair of locomotives
such as over the humps in the up goods yard. The class were essentially a tank
version of the G class 0-8-0s. 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 with the third pair of
wheels being flangeless. Being designed for shunting duties they were equipped
with lever actuated Joy reversing gear 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: The latter type was
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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