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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: lnwrns1700
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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all British Railways built locomotives, a very short life being withdrawn in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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