LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Coventry Station - LMS Locomotives: lnwrcov279

LMS 4-4-0 4P Compound No 1165 is seen entering Platform 2 on one of the famed 'two-hour' Euston to Birmingham express services circa 1927. The coaching stock is mainly LMS although the third vehicle is a LNWR restaurant car. Built by the North British Locomotive Company in September 1925 it remained in service until March 1959 when it was withdrawn from Bournville shed in Birmingham to be scrapped during October 1960 by A Loom of Spondon. It was reported to be stored at Chaddesden Sidings from May 1959 to August 1960.

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