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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns301

View of the hump and lines to the 'East' goods yard as an unidentified ex-LMS 2-8-0 8F and 2-6-0 6F5P 'Crab' work the yard

View of the hump and lines to the 'East' goods yard as an unidentified ex-LMS 2-8-0 8F and 2-6-0 6F/5P 'Crab' work the yard. The water column is surrounded by ash and clinker indicating that some locomotives needed to liven up their fire by the removal of such materials from the firebox. Peter Lee in his book on the Trent Valley Railway records that by 1917 Nuneaton Control was handling 90,000 wagons with 17 members of staff every week.

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