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

Coventry Station - LMS Locomotives: lnwrcov281

This rare colour photo shows ex-LNWR 3P Precursor class 4-4-0 No 25319 'Bucephalus' at the head of a local Nuneaton to Leamington passenger service. Reg Kimber wrote 'I am fairly certain the train was a Nuneaton to Leamington service as they used to average 7 coaches on the Nuneaton and Leamington trains in the 1940s and I'm sure it was the same in earlier years.' Built at Crewe works as LNWR No 990 in April 1906 it remained so numbered until July 1927 when it received it's LMS No 5319. The locomotive was later placed on the duplicate list to make way for the Patriots and Jubilees and lasted in service until December 1940 before being scrapped at Crewe Works the same month.

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