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: lnwrrm2545

Looking along platform 1 from the Stafford end of Rugby station with bay platforms 5 and 6 on the left. This end of the station accommodated the two pairs of bay platforms for MR services to Leicester and LNWR services to Leamington, Birmingham and Stafford. The locomotive on the right is thought to be LNWR Queen Mary class 4-4-0 No 1195 'T J Hare' and it and its train of mixed empty coaching stock is standing on the 'northern' siding which terminated just short of the scissors crossover by No 2 signal cabin. The Queen Mary class locomotive was essentially a non-superheated versions of the LNWR Whale Precursor Class. At the same time a superheated version of the Precursor was built, the George the Fifth Class, between 1910 and 1915, and as the advantage of superheating became apparent all of the Queen Mary class locomotives acquired superheaters and were absorbed into the George the Fifth Class.

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