GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Shed: gwrls230b

Close up of image 'gwrls230' showing one of the GWR's steel 'loco' wagons standing empty with the doors in the open position. The doors were designed to be of a similar width to the coal tipping tubs that ran at 90° to the wagon to the locomotive. A rake of wagons would be pushed up the embankment when full and positioned with the last wagon being opposite the coaling tub. When the first half of the loco coal wagon was empty it would be moved forward using gravity so that the other half load could be off-loaded. This process would be repeated until all of the wagons had been emptied.

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