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Ex-LNWR 2P 0-6-2T No 6935 pauses alongside the parachute water column ready to take on water on 24th August 1935

Ex-LNWR 2P 0-6-2T No 6935 pauses alongside the parachute water column ready to take on water on 24th August 1935. Built in March 1902 by Crewe works No 6935 remained in service until it was withdrawn in June 1946 from Bushbury shed. The term Parachute Water Column was used because of their supposedly similar look to a parachute. In essence they were a cylindrical water tank mounted above the locomotive and restricted to feeding one column. The advantage of this design was that the volume of water required by most locomotives could be served by the content of one tank or less. This meant that the filling process could be undertaken in a very short period of time. The tank would then be refilled from the mains or the main water tank before the arrival of the next locomotive.

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