Birmingham New Street Station - LMS Period Locomotives: LMS 5XP 4-6-0 Patriot class No 5521 'Rhyl' is seen standing at the West end of Platform 3 at the head of a down train to Wolverhampton

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

LMS Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_lms483

LMS 5XP 4-6-0 Patriot class No 5521 'Rhyl' is seen standing at the West end of Platform 3 at the head of a down train to Wolverhampton on 7th May 1938. Another of the Patriot class notionally to have been rebuilt from a LNWR 4-6-0 Claughton, No 5521 is seen carrying a 3B shed plate indicating it was a Bushbury shed locomotive. Originally rebuilt as LMS No 5933 in March 1933, No 5521 received the name 'Rhyl' in January 1938 and was one of the eighteen Patriot class locomotives to be rebuilt again - in October 1946 - with a Stanier 2A boiler. It was in this form that No 5521 remained in service until November 1963 when it was withdrawn from Spring Branch shed in Wigan to be scrapped by Crewe works.