LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Trent Valley Lineside - Cathiron: lnwr_cath1136

LMS 4-6-2 Princess Coronation class No 6220 'Coronation' is seen with streamlining removed at the head of an up express in July 1947. The top of the smoke box still retains the forward slope to accommodate the the streamlined front. Former streamlined locomotives ran in this condition until their smokeboxes required to be renewed. In this state such locomotives were often referred to by the nickname 'Semi' meaning semi-streamlined. Built at Crewe works in June 1937 No 6220 ran in service until April 1963 when it became the first of the class to be retired being withdrawn from Upperby shed in Carlisle to be scrapped in May 1963 by Crewe works.

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