LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Arley & Fillongley Station: mraf1876

A pair of ex-LMS '8F' 2-8-0 locomotives are seen at the head of a coal train from a local pit near Arley & Fillongley. The Warwickshire Coalfield extended from Warwick to Tamworth and was 25 miles from the north to the south with its width being approximately half that distance. Its western margin is defined by the 'Western Boundary Fault'. In the northeast it abuts against steeply dipping shales of Cambrian age. The larger part of the outcrop at the surface consists of the Warwickshire Group of largely coal-barren red beds.

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