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

Coventry Station: lnwrcov4373

Ex-LMS 2-8-0 8F No 48623 is seen on an up Class H freight service on the main through line as it passes ex-LMS 4-6-0 5MT No 45322 on a Class B stopping passenger service. Both locomotives were designed by William Stanier who was later knighted for his contribution to the railway industry. The 8F's 2-8-0 wheel arrangement was commonly known in the USA and elsewhere, as a 'Consolidation', after the Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad's Consolidation. The company named all of their locomotives and this was the name of the first 2-8-0 ever built. Built in December 1943 as LMS No 8623 by Ashford works of the Southern Railway, No 48623 was in the late 1950s and the first part of the 1960s, allocated to 2B Nuneaton shed before it transferred to 8H Birkenhead Mollington Street shed and then 8G Sutton Oak (Peasley Cross) shed from where it was withdrawn in October 1966. Built in February 1937 by Armstrong Whitworth as LMS No 5322, it was June 1949 before British Railways.

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