LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs270

A 'then and now' photograph. Ex-LMS 5MT 4-6-0 No 45289 passes Bridge 454 as it approaches Rugby Central on 13th August 1966. The background photograph was taken in 1986. Built in December 1936 by the Armstrong Whitworth Company, No 45289 was to remain in service until November 1966 when it was withdrawn from 16B Colwick shed to be scrapped by J Cashmore's of Great Bridge.

Vaughan Gallois

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