LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station - BR Locomotives: lnwrcov1763
Ex-LMS 4P Compound No 41172 is seen standing at Coventry's
platform 2 with the 13 43 Coventry to Birmingham New Street service. To the
right of the locomotive can be seen the 'incline plane' used during peak
traffic such as holidays, the L & B water column and wagons standing on the
spur to the L & B shed. Built at by the Vulcan Foundry as LMS No 1172 in
November 1925, No 41172 remained in service until July 1957 when it was
withdrawn from Rugby shed to be scrapped in August 1957 by Derby works.
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