LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov579
Another view of the London and Birmingham Bury water column and
fire devil located at the Birmingham end of the down platform. The printed
notice states 'Enginemen when taking water place 2 briquettes in tender'. The
briquettes were used to soften the hard water found in Coventry and would
reduce the build up of lime scale which could severely damage the boilers of
steam engines. The water column was taken to the National Railway Museum when
it was removed at the start of rebuilding in 1959.
Photograph by J Hyde © Steam Archive
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