LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington Spa (Avenue)

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

LMS Route: Leamington to Weedon

Leamington (Avenue) Station: lnwrlave1351

Ex-MR 0-6-0 2F No 3084 is seen at the head of a local passenger train to Coventry. The use of goods engines on passenger services was a common practice particularly in the summer months when traffic levels could peak with holiday traffic. It was also standard practice by UK railway companies to cascade older locomotives onto secondary duties.

Number 3084, a MR 1357 class locomotive, was built by Beyer Peacock in December 1882 and survived in service for 77 years being initially stored from February 1959 at Trafford Park until its official withdrawal as BR No 58213 in August 1959 and scrapped shortly afterwards.

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