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 Station: lnwrrm1533

An unidentified LNWR 4-4-0 'George the Fifth' Class locomotive stands at the platform with the Sunny South Express service. The Sunny South Express ran from Liverpool and Manchester to Brighton and Eastbourne. The trains were hauled by LNWR and London, Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotives. The service operated from 1904 until after the Second World War and carried holiday passengers from the midlands and the north of England to the south coast. The express passed through Birmingham, Rugby and the west side of London. Other railways also ran their versions of the Sunny South and these trains comprised carriages of several different companies.

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