London Midland Scottish Railway Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk150b

This close up of image 'lnwrk150' shows the unidentified LNWR 2-4-0 Newton Class locomotive entering the station. The engine has plenty of steam to spare as is witnessed by the steam rising from the Ramsbottom safety valves. The tender clearly is fully coaled so the locomotive has not travelled far, probably Milverton shed, although it may not have been a Milverton locomotive.

If the locomotive was dropping off wagons at Kenilworth they were not ideally located being at the front of the train. The locomotive would have had to unhook the first (goods) portion of the train and run forward past the points controlling the goods yard before reversing the wagons into the yard. It would then have to reverse the process with any wagons to be picked up before recommencing its journey.

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