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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Shed: lnwrns3841

LNWR 0-8-2T No 1663 stands in line in front of the shed with other miscellaneous locomotives circa 1914

LNWR 0-8-2T No 1663 stands in line in front of the shed with other miscellaneous locomotives circa 1914. Peter Lee writes that two other 1185 Class locomotives, No 1090 and No 1494, were also based at Nuneaton to aid shunting during the First World War. One of a class of thirty locomotives designed by CJ Bowen-Cooke, they were built at Crewe from 1911 to 1917. They were intended for heavy shunting duties being carried by a pair of locomotives such as over the humps in the up goods yard. The class were essentially a tank version of the G class 0-8-0s. 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 with the third pair of wheels being flangeless. Being designed for shunting duties they were equipped with lever actuated Joy reversing gear 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: The latter type was 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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