LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs14

Ex-ROD 2-8-0 Class O4/3 No 63739 is seen on an up mineral train approaching Rugby station. Built in October 1918 by the North British Locomotive Company as ROD No 1807 it was renumbered at grouping by the LNER as No 6285 and then as No 3739 in 1946. On nationalisation it was renumbered as No 63739 which it carried until October 1965 when it was withdrawn from Langwith Junction shed.

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