LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk152

Ex-LNWR 1P 2-4-2T No 6653 is seen sandwiched in the centre of a four coach push-pull train on a local service from Nuneaton to Leamington circa 1938. Whilst not a rare configuration, the usual configuration for this branch - as most photographs on this website seem to suggest - was motor-fitted trains which were primarily two coaches with the locomotive located at one end. This four-coach configuration would be adopted when traffic demand was high it although it necessitated employing two driver trailer coaches which appears extravagant in view of the relatively few numbers built by the LMS. The normal approach was the use of conventional four or six-coach trains hauled by a locomotive.

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