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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Coventry
LMS Route: Coventry Loop Line
Three Spires Junction: lnwr_3spires3410
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Harry Addison poses on a five-plank open coal wagon stabled
on one Three Spires Junction's exchange sidings. Charles and Giles Ayres
commenced business in Reading in 1825, and in the broad gauge era of the Great
Western Railway, operated a fleet of some forty wagons, which were converted to
standard gauge in 1872 by the Gloucester RC&WCo.; The standard gauge
replacements, until 1907, were painted red, but in 1910 an eye catching livery
of three yellow planks bordered by green planks top and bottom and both black
and yellow lettering was introduced with wagons built by the Birmingham
RC&WCo., which incurred a slight extra charge for the more complicated
livery, extending to the repainting of the existing fleet of older wagons, such
as that illustrated. The company sourced much of its house coal from collieries
in the Coventry - Nuneaton area, but for local gas coal contracts wagons
travelled as far as Smithy Wood and Cortonwood near Barnsley in Yorkshire and
Ruabon in north Wales.
Keith Turton
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