GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Olton Station: gwro4021

An unidentified Great Western Railway 2-6-2T 3150 class Prairie Tank hauls a diagram E94 toplight corridor brake composite coach and another coach on a section of the recently quadrupled track during the bridge testing. The transcribed article about the bridge tests in the Railway Magazine (June 1934) stated that a Brake Third coach and a Saloon coach accompanied the locomotives. Three coaches to diagram E94 were built on carriage lot 1200 in October and November 1912. The coaches were 57 feet long by 9 feet wide, with two lavatories. One lavatory was located between the two first class compartments and four third class compartments. There was also a combined Guard / luggage compartment at the end with double doors on both sides. The coach running numbers were; 7581, 7582 and 7583. During 1912, several lots, consisting only a few coaches each, were built as replacements for coaches that had been destroyed by a fire in the Swindon Paintshops during the previous year. All three coaches survived in to nationalisation, being withdrawn from service between July 1957 and August 1958.

This photograph is Solihull Central Library record reference No 1798, courtesy R Waring.

Robert Ferris

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