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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station - BR Locomotives: lnwrcov229
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British Railways Type 2 Diesel D5019 is seen passing the
Coventry No 1 Goods shed on a down freight service to Birmingham circa 1961.
Known as a 'Sulzer' Type 2 locomotive, reflecting the engine fitted to the
unit, one hundred and fifty-one locomotives were built at Derby, Crewe and
Darlington between 1958 and 1961 the first twenty of which were ordered as part
of the 1955 British Rail modernisation plan. This class was used as the basis
for the development of the Class 25 locomotives. The pilot scheme locomotives
were delivered in overall green livery with a grey roof and black below the
body. D5000 was delivered with a narrow white stripe at waist level while the
remainder sported a broad white stripe at solebar level. At first green
liveried locos had plain green ends, but this was changed later to small yellow
warning panels, and then to full yellow end, some locos receiving these while
still in green livery. At least one loco, D5005, is recorded in 1966 as having
two-tone green livery applied along with the small yellow warning panel in a
similar manner to Class 47s and some Class 25s.
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