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

Coventry Station: lnwr620b

This close up of image "lnwr620" shows the down platform with a locomotive apparently taking on water. Unfortunately its not possible to determine whether or not the train standing on the down through road is without a locomotive providing speculation that the locomotive by the water column has reversed in to take on water.

Such an occurrence would not have been unusual because at the time of the photograph railway policemen, or "bobbies" as they are still known as today, set the points and signals by hand. It might therefore have been the case that the train was not scheduled to stop at Coventry and was directed to pass through the station on the through road. In which case the engine men would have brought their engine to a standstill and explained their need. To gain access to the water column would have required the locomotive to be drawn forward clear of the points and then reversed back in to the down platform.

The tall chimney seen towering above the structure belongs to the pump house and is further evidence of there having been a L & B shed from the beginning of the railway. C1860

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