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: lnwrrm3057

View of an unknown locomotive being coaled at Rugby's LMS coaling plant built in the 1930s. The LMS had identified coaling as one of the major areas of inefficiency with much time and effort being invested in manual labour coaling locomotives. Mechanisation offered considerable benefits and by limiting the coal capacity of the coaling plant's bunker to a depot's 24 hour supply the capital costs could be kept down. The coaling plant only needed a single attendant to manage the process of replenishing the coal each day into the two 150 ton bunkers. They were based in a kiosk office (which can be seen on the left at the other end of the platform).

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