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

Coventry Station: lnwrcov4362

View of Coventry No 1 Signal Cabin located in the 'V' of the Leamington branch junction to aid good sighting all round circa 1952. On the face of it, a down passenger train had been halted to allow a Leamington-bound freight to cross ahead of it, although it must have arrived first (the signalman could not have accepted it from the next Signal Cabin back at Whitley Wharf with the road set across the junction). The Class C headcode on the ex-LMS locomotive informs us that the train was an Empty Carriage Stock (ECS) working which could take a low priority. The balance weights on the bracket home signal, at which the train was standing, reveal that the signalman at Coventry No 2 Signal Cabin had already accepted the train and pulled off for it - the signal was being held at danger by the signalman at No 1 Cabin until the freight was well clear of the junction.

Mike Christensen

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