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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1700

British Railways 4-6-2 Britannia Class No 70032 'Tennyson' is seen passing the carriage sidings on the 8 30am Manchester to Euston express

British Railways 4-6-2 Britannia Class No 70032 'Tennyson' is seen passing the carriage sidings on the 8 30 am Manchester to Euston express on 29th February 1953. Built at Crewe works in December 1952 No 70032 had, like all British Railways built locomotives, a very short life being withdrawn in September 1967 from Kingmoor shed in Carlisle to be scrapped in March 1968 by J McWilliam & Sons of Shettleston. To the left of the Riddles designed Pacific locomotive can be seen the guards van of a goods train stopped by signals at the junction with the Coventry branch. The chequered board in between the goods train and the express indicates a mail exchange facility. Behind the board is the hut where a railwayman would operate the mechanical arm (just in shadow behind the hut) that proffered the bag to be collected in the net of the passing mail coach. Mail bags being dropped off were similarly offered by an arm on the coach which was collected by the arm on the track. Clearance requirements for these 'out of gauge' actions necessitated the 'six foot' gap between running lines to be wider as seen above.

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