LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1632

LMS 4-6-2 Coronation class No 6220 'Coronation' is seen passing through Nuneation station at the head of the inaugral down 'Coronation Scot' express service on 5th July 1937. Built at Crewe works in June 1937, No 6220 was the LMS' response to the LNER's streamlined A4 class that hauled the Flying Scotsman train. After the removal ofthe streamlining in the austere post-war period No 6220 remained in service until April 1963 when it became the first of the class to be withdrawn - from Upperby shed in Carlisle - to be scrapped during May 1963 by Crewe works.

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