LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Rugby to Leamington
LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth
LMS Route: Rugby to Leicester
LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough

Rugby Shed: lnwrrm349

LNWR Southern Division 2-2-2 Lady of the Lake class No 804 'Soult' stands at Rugby's coke shed circa 1868. Designed by John Ramsbottom and introduced in 1859, the first of the '7ft 6in Single' class was No 184 'Problem'. This name came from a withdrawn Trevithick 2-4-0 goods engine and originally had a mathematical connotation, another of the class being 'Theorem'. They incorporated all the usual Ramsbottom features: his design of chimney top, safety valves and screw reverser, horizontal smoke box door, no cab, no brakes on the engine and no top lamp socket. The most famous engine in the '7ft 6in Single' or 'Problem' class was No 531 'Lady of the Lake', since it was awarded a bronze medal at the International Exhibition in 1862. As a result, its name came to be used colloquially as the class name.

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