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

Coventry Station: lnwrcov645d

This close up of image 'lnwrcov645' shows a LNWR 0-6-0 DX goods engine on a short train passing the Coventry station on an up goods working. Harry Jack writes "This is probably be the earliest photograph of a DX in traffic and shows the locomotive is in original condition except for the Webb chimney". He adds "the DX is still in pre-1873 green livery, with a painted number on the footplate side-sheet rather than a numberplate, but with a numberplate (shaped like a nameplate) on the middle splasher. The first two wagons behind the tender are lettered for carrying loco coal whilst the load on the fourth wagon appears to be hand carts with some kind of bowser or barrel. Above the last coach a footpath from Warwick Road can be seen as can two open wagons standing parallel to each other on the parcel bay's two sidings. Also visible is the wagon turntable a better view of which can be seen in image 'lnwrcov1282d'. When first opened Coventry did not have a parcels service and citizens of Coventry had to go to Curzon Street station in Birmingham to collect their merchandise etc.

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