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: lnwrrm1535a

Close up of image 'lnwrrm1535' showing the magnificent porte cochère which was designed to offset the gloomy passenger tunnel beyond. A porte-cochère or carriage porch is a porch- or portico-like structure erected at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which a horse and carriage (or motor vehicle) can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather. In this instance, three of the canopy sections had been erected at the second station (see image 'lnwrrm3305', the other two sections required to make the porte cochère longer were exact copies.

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