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Ex-LNWR 2-4-2T No 6749 seen at Rugby on 6th March 1948 probably with a train bound for Leamington. Built at Crewe as LNWR No 1381 in May 1897 and was renumbered by the LMS as No 6749 in November 1927 it would be renumbered by British Railways as No 46749 in November 1948 before being withdrawn in February 1952. In 1947 No 6749 was allocated to Warwick shed so could it be working the Rugby-Leamington-Coventry-Nuneaton service? Pete Nicholls writes, 'I cannot think of anything else it would have been but the Leamington Branch , Leicester trains tended to be 4 to 5 coaches with a Fowler Class 4 tank , don't remember ever seeing ex-LNWR types on the Leicester trains but that might have happened, but I don't recall them. The local all stations services over the Coventry line were also mostly LMS Class 3 or Class 4 locomotives. As No 6749 was a 2C engine its also very likely that its 2C chaps working it'. Robert Haddon writes, 'the second carriage looks to be a 57ft brake Corridor 3rd to me. I would have thought that if the train was heading for the Leamington branch it would be on the nearest track to the camera or even the second ready turn sharp left after Newbold Road? I now know that some of the Leamington flyers started at Nuneaton via Coventry and Leamington to Rugby,with even one of afternoon trains going down the Weedon branch and terminating at Stockton, my cousins Ken and Brian using the train to go to grammar school in Leamington daily'. Mustafa Kuppa writes, 'First coach is LNWR D182 cove roof composite. Second coach is LMS period 3 brake third. (Non-corridor)'. David Murray finally added, 'Looks like we’re between the station and the Wooden Bridge. I guess he’s left No 6 bay and is on the Down Slow and then he’ll cross over and onto the branch by Newbold Rd; near and controlled by Rugby No.7 Box?' Photograph courtesy David P Williams
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