Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: Ex-LMS 6P 4-6-0 No 45532 'Illustrious' is seen wearing 1946 LMS black lined livery as it stands at Platform 5 on a Wolverhampton express

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br1815

Ex-LMS 6P 4-6-0 No 45532 'Illustrious' is seen wearing 1946 LMS black lined livery as it stands at Platform 5 on a Wolverhampton express on 11th September 1948. The locomotive had only been rebuilt in July and as the new British Railway's livery of 'Brunswick Green' had yet to be confirmed Crewe followed the logical act of applying the former LMS' livery. Another 'paper' rebuild of a LNWR Claughton No 45532 was originally rebuilt at Crewe in April 1933 and was to have a relatively long life for this class by lasting in service until February 1964 when it was withdrawn from Upperby shed in Carlisle to be scrapped in January 1965 by GH Campbell of Airdrie.