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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: lnwrcov4369
Ex-LMS 2-6-2T 3P No 40208 is seen topping up with water from
the water column located at the Birmingham end of the down platform. Built as
LMS No 208 by Crewe works in April 1938, the locomotive was renumbered as No
40208 by BR in December 1948 which it retained until October 1961 when it was
withdrawn from 9E Trafford Park. The LNWR signal sited at the end of the down
platform (Platform 2) survived until 1962 as did the even older water column,
which was the original L&BR installation. The column had been extended
upwards to cope with the increasing height of locomotive tenders and bunkers by
the simple expedient of bolting on an additional section of pipe. To get to the
column, locomotives had to draw well forward off the end of the platform
resulting in a tender engine being fully foul of the down through line.
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