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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 Shed: lnwrrm1043

Ex-LNWR 2-4-0 Precedent Class 5000 'Princess Beatrice' stands in a row of other stored locomotives circa 1932

Ex-LNWR 2-4-0 Precedent Class 5000 'Princess Beatrice' stands in a row of other stored locomotives circa 1932. Built as LNWR No 2190 at Crewe works in April 1875 No 5000 was renumbered by the LMS in July 1928 remaining in service until June 1932 when it was withdrawn from Rugby shed for scrapping at Crewe works. The stored locomotives are adjacent to the coal stacks with the LNWR coaling stage in the distance. One of the other locomotives is ex-LNWR 0-6-0 Coal Engine No 8104 whilst the other is an unidentified Coal Engine. Hawkins & Reeves in their book 'LMS Engine Sheds Volume One - The LNWR' state that it was the practice at Rugby for a large number of locomotives to be put in store during the winter ready to be used during busier periods. Its assumed that the engines seen above (and in image 'lnwrrm995') are therefore in store being at the end of their working lives.

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