LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Old Milverton Lineside Views: lnwr_oldmil1455

Ex-LNWR 0-8-0 No 8910 works a Coventry to Leamington coal train just after the war. Whereas prior to 1939 a significant number of coal wagons were P.O. (Private Owner) wagons this had ceased with the outbreak of war when, for all intent and purposes, they were nationalised being allocated as common user wagons. After the war the nationalisation of the coal mines, gas works and other utility companies, who owned the majority of the Private Owner wagons together with the railways, meant for many years few wagons on British Railways were privately owned. C1947

Number 8910 was built at Crewe in December 1907 and when seen above was just months away from being withdrawn from Warwick shed in January 1948. The nationalisation of the railways saw LMS locomotives being renumbered by the addition of 40,000 to their LMS running number. Number 8910 was therefore allocated the running number 48910 but was scrapped at Crewe before it was worn.

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