LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington Spa (Avenue)
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
LMS Route: Leamington to Weedon
Leamington (Avenue) Station: lnwrlave1355
BR built, but to an LMS Ivatt 2-6-2T design, No 41234 is
seen on a local passenger service to Coventry. The date on the photograph
states the photograph was taken on 25th June 1949 but this was six months
before the locomotive was built. The LMS abandoned the policy of cascading
older locomotives to secondary duties realising that the cost of up keep and
servicing outweighed the capital costs of building new purpose built
locomotives.
Ivatt's 2-6-2T were equipped with many labour saving
devices many borrowed from the experience of operating USA Army Corp.
locomotives operated in the UK during the Second World War. Number 41234 was
built at Crewe works in August 1949 and withdrawn from Sutton Oak shed in
November 1966 and scrapped at a later date.
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