LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Coventry Station: lnwrcov4380

British Railways built 4-6-0 5MT No 44716 is seen pulling out with a Birmingham-bound train consisting of ex-Southern Railway stock, a notable rarity at Coventry. The photograph was taken on the 3rd September 1960 and shows one of the standard six-coach suburban sets stabled in up siding No 1. This was because the goods yard often had to be used to stable coaches because the carriage sidings beside the Leamington branch were really quite inadequate. This was despite the original single carriage siding had been increased to four sidings by 1920, installed during the doubling of the Leamington line, and a further £4,492 was spent on adding additional carriage siding accommodation by December 1929.

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