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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. 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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