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: lnwrrm2613

Looking towards Stafford showing the wooden footbridge bridge and behind on the left Rugby's 1850s engine shed. Harry Jack notes that Peter Elliott's book Rugby Railway Heritage quotes the Rugby Advertiser's edition of 19th July 1851 which describes the 'gigantic building with separate compartments for each locomotive' and believes that this corroborates his theory that the above sketch is the same shed seen in image 'lnwrrm2609'. The wooden footbridge crossed the LNWR lines exiting Rugby station and then descended by steps to a tunnel which passed beneath the Midland Counties Railway's line to Leicester, on which a Midland Counties Railway locomotive, thought to be a Bury locomotive, is standing. The lines passing under the footbridge to the right of the LNWR shed progressed northwards to Stafford via the Trent Valley line, west to Warwick Milverton via Leamington Avenue station and northwest towards Birmingham New Street via Coventry.

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