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

Coventry Shed: lnwrcov666

View of the new British Railways built shed and a mixture of ex-LMS and ex-LNWR goods and mixed traffic locomotives. The new shed built by BR had an extremely short operational life. In fact it lasted longer as a store for withdrawn locomotives than it did as a working shed. The BR structure was basic and functional as can be seen by this photograph. It was essentially a three sided box designed to keep both enginemen and locomotives dry with light provided by side windows and roof lights with the smoke taken away by a more efficient extraction system than the earlier LNWR design.

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