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Ex-LNWR Claughton Class 4-6-0 No 5956 is piloting ex-LNWR Claughton Class 4-6-0 No 5995 with a long Down express on the Rugby avoiding line at the north end of the station. On the left is Rugby No 5 signal cabin and to the right, several bracket signals in view - distant arms have vertical stripes, not chevrons. British Thomson Houston works are on the left, behind the horseboxes. The roofs of more horseboxes can be seen in the right foreground. David Murray writes 'the Claughtons are on the Down Fast. The coach on the adjacent line at the rear of the train, is parked on the end of the ‘Independent’. The Independent was the siding adjacent to the station between the Down Fast and Down Goods. At the south end of the Independent there was a horse dock which was accessed by a road which ran underneath the Down Goods'. Bob Haddon writes, 'Just looking at the BTH buildings on the left, I used to possess a book with all building numbers but gave it my Aunt as it also gave employee names with her dads name in (my granddad). Building 25 seems to be missing, that's where they built the first computers during WW2' David Murray adds 'the crews shunting Hunter’s wagon works benefited from a free perk - bags of free kindling! Presumably scrap wood from wagons under repair there and very useful in the days when homes were lit by coal fires'. Photograph David Ratcliff Collection LNWRS reference DNR0824
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