GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington Shed: gwrls230b

This close up of image 'gwrls230' shows one of the steel GWR 'loco' wagons standing empty on the coaling stage access line. These 'loco' wagons were built to ease the coaling process having two small bottom hung doors as seen above. The tubs that transferred the coal from these wagons to the locomotive's bunker or tender were small as they had to be manhandled throughout the entire process and therefore only small amounts of coal needed to off-loaded each time. The tubs ran on a narrow gauge track built at right-angles to the access road.

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