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Ex-LNWR 5ft 6in Tank No 6739 heads a motor train for either Warwick or Nuneaton as it departs from Rugby's Bay 6 on 7th August 1937. As can be seen by the numbering on the carriage doors, this service had both first and third class compartments. The wagon works roof on the left is quite distinctive. The photographer was standing next to the Down Goods line, near the rear of the passenger train in the centre spread. No 6739 was equipped with VCR apparatus in August 1931 and allocated to Bletchley from June 1935 until January 1939, although the 2B shedplate is not clear in the photograph It was previously at shed 8 Rugby or perhaps the subshed 2B Warwick (LNWR codes used until 1935}. and subsequently at 2E Warwick. Maybe it was working on a diagram which started and finished at Bletchley. involving a working starting from Rugby, a though I don't have a WTT or a Coach Working notice to confirm this, or maybe it was on loan. The Rugby and Warwick motor service was commenced by the LNWR during the Great War, but I believe motor trains over the route from Roade via Northampton to Rugby to Nuneaton were an LMS innovation after 1922, perhaps around 1930. By 1935 motor trains also worked into Rugby from Leicester, although these would have been Midland Division stock. By 1946 they also worked down the main line to Coventry, but I haven't yet established the commencement date of the latter. Reg Instone
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