London Midland Scottish Railway Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk152

Ex-LNWR 2-4-2T No 6653 lies in the centre of a four-coach push-pull train heading to Leamington. Whilst not a rare configuration, the usual configuration for this branch (as most photographs seem to suggest) was motor-fitted trains with two-coaches with the locomotive located at one end.

This four-coach configuration would be adopted when traffic demand was high it although it necessitated employing two driver trailer coaches which appears extravagant in view of the relatively few numbers built by the LMS. The normal approach was the use of conventional four or six-coach trains hauled by a locomotive. C1938

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