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Rugby Station: lnwrrm881e

Close up showing the selection of wagons on view which is of great interest as many of them are quite freshly painted

Close up of image 'lnwrrm881' showing the selection of wagons on view which is of great interest as many of them are quite freshly painted. Stephen Weston in the LNWR Society's Journal Volume 5 No 4 writes 'The variety of wagons on view is enormous, many of them looking freshly painted. All four of the newly created 'Big Four' are represented but one pre-group livery can still found, a four-plank open lettered 'LNWR' (on the left, the second line of wagons and fifth wagon in, immediately prior to the the SR open with rounded ends. The Private Owner wagons include examples from Arley Colliery, Tarmac, Dunlop, Binley Colliery, Whitwell Coal Co., George Harwood, Bletchley & District Co-op, BTH, The Whitwick Granite Co., Roberts of Birmingham, Wirksworth Quarries, Wilson, Carter & Pearson, Cannock Chase, E. Linfield, Carlton, Lee & Jerdein and Sherriff & Sons.'

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