LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Shed: lnwrcov666
View of the new British Railways built shed and a mixture of
ex-LMS and ex-LNWR goods and mixed traffic locomotives. The new shed built by
BR had an extremely short operational life. In fact it lasted longer as a store
for withdrawn locomotives than it did as a working shed. The BR structure was
basic and functional as can be seen by this photograph. It was essentially a
three sided box designed to keep both enginemen and locomotives dry with light
provided by side windows and roof lights with the smoke taken away by a more
efficient extraction system than the earlier LNWR design.
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