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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Leamington Spa Station: gwrls2531
Another view of the unidentified GWR 0-6-0 Armstrong Goods
locomotive at the head of the short engineer's train. The LNWR line is on the
extreme left of the photograph. This view, with the locomotive being further
back on the down line, shows a large diameter pipe connected by the use of
flanges and bolts which are normally associated with water being pumped under
pressure. In image 'gwrls2094' another similar size
water pipe can be seen. What is not known is what purpose did these pipes serve
and do the two photographs show the same pipe crossing the bridge, the above
being a temporary pipe laid whilst the up line's structure was being built and
the other seen in image 'gwrls2094' being a
permanent pipe. Robert Ferris speculates that the pipe could be supplying the
up platform's water cranes.
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