LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov1578
Ex-LMS 2-6-4T 4MT No 42338 is seen standing at Coventry
station's new platform three on a Rugby to Birmingham local passenger train on
New Years Eve 1962. Winter was a time of extremes for the footplate crew as
when the door the firebox was open they would be hit by searing heat to their
front whilst the cold winter winds would freeze their backs. Built as LMS No
2338 at Derby works to Lot 53 in April 1929 it remained in service until
January 1964 when it was withdrawn from Gorton shed to be cut up at Horwich
works in April 1964.
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