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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Nuneaton Station: lnwrns3800
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An unidentified ex-LNWR 0-8-2T locomotive is seen standing
on one of the two Nuneaton humps used on the up sidings. Peter Lee writes on
Nuneaton Steam Club's Facebook page, 'this is an extremely rare photograph
of the back hump at Nuneaton, so I apologise for the quality. It isn't well
known there were two humps in the up yard because of the intensity of the work.
One was removed in the 1930s. We had a couple of these tank versions of the
Super D at Nuneaton for hump shunting'. The locomotive was a member of the
LNWR 1185 Class designed by Charles Bowen-Cooke and introduced in 1911. They
passed into LMS ownership in 1923 and eight survived to British Railways
ownership in 1948. They were numbered by British Railways numbers as No 47875
to No 47896 but with gaps. They were designed as heavy shunting tank engines
and thirty such locomotives were built at Crewe from 1911 to 1917. The intended
duties were take over workings which previously needed two locomotives. They
were essentially a tank version of the 'G' class 0-8-0s. When introduced they
had the then new style of 12 inch letters of the company's initials on the tank
sides. They were fitted with saturated 'Precursor' class boilers with lagged
ends, round-top fireboxes, and sloping coal bunkers. The main wheels were
coupled by three overlapping rods and the third pair of wheels were flangeless.
Lever actuated Joy reversing gear appeared in-lieu of the normal Ramsbottom
screw system. The earlier engines initially had slender tapered Cooke buffers
but these were replaced by those of standard Webb pattern which were also
fitted from new on later engines. Braking was by steam, but vacuum brakes were
provided to operate fitted or passenger stock if required.
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