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 Station - LMS Period Locomotives: lnwrrm789

Ex-SDJR 7F 2-8-0 No 9676 is seen on 13th August 1930 at the head of a Toton to Willesdon coal train as part of the LMS experimentation to resolve their big goods engine problem. As No 9676 did not have a tender with a water scoop it is coupled to a tender from 4F No 4227. Built as S&DJR No 86 in July 1925 by R Stephenson & Company, No 9676 was subsequently renumbered by the LMS as No 9676 in 1930 and again as No 13806 in 1932 which it carried until renumbered by British Railways as No 53806 on nationalisation. Jeremy English writes 'It was the first of the large-boilered engines, and the last to carry one - a G9BS - receiving a standard G9AS boiler in 1956'. Under British Railways ownership No 9676 continued to work the SDJR until January 1964 when upon the closure of the route the locomotive was withdrawn from service to be scrapped during July 1964 by J Cashmore of Newport.

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