LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Coventry Shed: lnwrcov4052

LMS 4-6-2 No 6240 'City of Coventry' stands adjacent to Quinton Road after being named by the Lord Mayor of Coventry. When first built, in streamlined form in March 1940, No 6240, a member of the Princess Coronation Class, was painted in Crimson Lake livery It remained in this livery until December 1944 when it was painted in plain Wartime Black. After having its streamlining removed and smoke deflectors fitted in June 1947, the LMS repainted it in lined Black livery the following month. As No 46240, it retained this LMS livery until in January 1950 when British Railways painted it Standard Blue. The locomotive received its cylindrical smokebox in July 1953, and was again repainted in October 1954 when British Railways applied the lined Green livery. In July 1958 it received the British Railways red/maroon livery to be followed in August 1960 when it was given the 'LMS lined maroon' livery. This livery was to be its last because in October 1964 it was withdrawn from Crewe North shed to be scrapped in March 1965 by J Cashmore of Great Bridge.

Photograph courtesy of Mike Morant

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