GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Spa Station: gwrls238a

Close up showing a GWR 2-6-0 43xx class with two slip coaches to be attached to a Paddington train

This close up of image 'gwrls238' shows an unknown GWR 2-6-0 43xx class with two roof-boarded coaches, almost certainly those slipped off the 9.10 a.m. Paddington for Stratford upon Avon train. John Copsey adds that they would be 'returning on the 3.25 p.m. Stratford for attachment to the 4.00 p.m. Birmingham to Paddington (via Bicester), departing Leamington 4.28 p.m. after the coaches had been added to the rear.

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