GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Pre-grouping Locomotives at Leamington: gwrls828

Looking south towards London as an unknown GWR 2-4-0T 'Metro' class is seen at the head of a local down train comprising six-wheel stock. Behind the locomotive was the siding where the two 'carriage shoots', the place where carriages could be loaded and off-loaded from flat wagons. On the siding were two small turntables of a length just long enough to accommodate a 9 or 10 feet wheel base. These turntables allowed the rail wagon to be rotated into short bays for the carriage to be run off over the end via a ramp. In this instance the bays were at 45° to the rail so the carriage could be pushed into the wider part of the platform seen behind the locomotive.

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