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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington South Junction: gwrls3974

Leamington Priors Gas Company wagon No 22, from the same batch of twelve wagons, purchased second-hand from one F Harding

Leamington Priors Gas Company wagon No 22, from the same batch of twelve wagons, purchased second-hand from one F Harding. These were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company of Smethwick. Based on the existing wagons owned by the gasworks, they would have been numbered 17 to 28. The photograph was taken at Toton in 1939 and was computer enhanced from a very small image to highlight the white lettering. However, the wagon number was left untouched, so assuming that the wagon body was painted red as were the earlier wagons, the words 'Royal Leamington Spa' diagonally across the wagon body appear to have been painted a different colour, possibly yellow. Unless newer wagons bought in the 1930s were given recycled numbers, it appears that the original information taken from Thomas's published drawings was incorrect, that is unless the number borne is from a previous wagon.

Keith Turton

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