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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1667
View of an unidentified ex-LNWR 0-8-0 passes Nuneaton's up
goods yard signal box as it starts away with a freight working to Rugby. The
locomotive is still bearing on the cab side its cast number plates indicating
that the photograph was taken before 1928 by when most pre-grouping locomotives
had acquired their LMS number. On the right is a Coventry Cooperative wagon,
one of many the society owned being one of the largest coal merchants in the
area. The two men on the left are shunters, easily recognisable due to the
shunting poles they are carrying. The main tool of shunters working with
hook-and-chain couplings was a shunting pole, which allowed the shunter to
reach between wagons to fasten and unfasten couplings without having physically
to go between the vehicles. The pole had a metal hook at one end which was used
to 'hook' the coupling and by resting the pole on a buffer, lift the coupling
clear of the hook on the opposite wagon.
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