LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Junction: lnwrkj179

Ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 No 48757 is running light engine and tender first to Coventry. The signalman can be seen leaning out of the window handing over the token. Number 48757 was built by the LNER in November 1946 and classified by the LNER as a class 07. Initially its BR running number was 63552 before it was transferred to the LMR. Its North Eastern relationship was completed by its scrapping in April 1968 by Drapers Ltd of Hull after being withdrawn from Rose Grove in December 1967.

On the left can be seen a vegetable garden that would have provided the signalmen with some produce as well acting as a diversion during quiet periods. Second World War rationing resulted in the cutting being fully exploited and other photographs seen by the author shows the cultivation of the ground adjacent to the box was quite extensive. C1955

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