Kenilworth. Railway Station

A 6'6" Newton Class locomotive pulling a passenger train at Kenilworth station. 1910s

IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)

Reference: PH, 352/101/117, img: 1352

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1910-1919

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An unidentified LNWR 2-4-0 Improved Precedent class locomotive is seen entering Kenilworth station at the head of an express service circa 1908-10. There has been some debate about the date of this photograph but colleagues from the LNWR Society were able to date the photograph from the following information. Ted Talbot writes ‘The date has got to be after May 1895, because that is the date when the LNWR first began to put coal rails on tenders. Passenger engines got them very soon, goods engines more slowly, some not even by 1900. Another good dating feature is the centre lamp socket on the bufferbeam, which first came into use when the LNWR, along with many other companies, adopted the RCH headlamp code, from 1st February 1903.

By Mike Musson (05/02/2017)