LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station - LMS Locomotives: lnwrcov277
Ex-LNWR 4-4-0 3P Precursor class No 5188 'Marquis' is seen at
the head of an up express service passing under the passenger footbridge on the
through road during the 1930s. Built as LNWR No 412 at Crewe works in June 1904
it was originally named 'Alfred Paget'. It later it received its first LMS
running number - No 5188 - in April 1926 and then in November 1934 it was
placed on the duplicates list and gained its final running number - No 25188 -
which it carried until April 1940 when it was withdrawn from service to be
scrapped the following month at Crewe works.
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