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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Kenilworth Station: lnwrk156a
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Close up of image 'lnwrk156' showing seven plank railway
wagons including a Coventry Colliery Private Owner vehicle in the yard of
Cherry Orchard Brickworks. The other two wagons are LMS owned and still full of
coal whilst the Coventry Colliery wagon has been emptied. By definition
brickworks were heavy users of materials, clay for the bricks and coal to fire
them in the large ovens, and whilst they could be sited at locations where the
correct kind of clay existed coal would always need to be brought in. Therefore
most large brickworks needed to be rail connected. Next to the wagons is a
large stack of bricks which might be loaded into the wagons after they had been
cleaned and straw laid down to stop the bricks from rubbing together. Careful
examination of the top two planks on the LMS wagons show that they are deeper
than the remainder. This was because the weight of the load would be less at
the top and therefore the planking need not be as strong as the bottom
planks.
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