LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov645b
Close up of image 'lnwrcov645' showing details of the LNWR
Brake Coach with its guards ducket and lamp on top and an early form of
communication cord visible. The ducket allowed the guard to look safely down
the outside of the train by having a window in either side. Its not known why a
lamp was fitted to the top of the ducket as lamps were usually placed on the
front of the locomotive or the rear of the last coach. Through careful
observation of the next coach's roof gutter a row of rings can be seen with a
rope passing through to the guard. In an emergency passengers would reach out
and pull the rope to stop the train.
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