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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 - BR Period Locomotives: lnwrrm4353

Ex-LMS 4-6-2 Coronation Class No 46241 'City of Edinburgh' approaches the station on an up working of the 'Caledonian'.

Ex-LMS 4-6-2 Coronation Class No 46241 'City of Edinburgh' approaches the station on an up working of the 'Caledonian'. The Caledonian ran between Glasgow Central and London Euston, up in the morning, due into London in mid-afternoon, and down in the afternoon, with a Glasgow arrival in the late evening. The service was introduced on 17th June 1957 and ran as a named express until 4th September 1964. However, in the summer of 1958 there was a trial of running it twice daily, with morning and afternoon services in each direction. Built as LMS No 6241 by Crewe works in April 1940, it renumbered by British Railways as No 46241 in May 1948 which it carried until September 1964 when it was withdrawn from 8A Edge Hill shed to be scrapped by Cashmores of Great Bridge.

The Caledonian used a headboard of the 'Royal Scot' pattern, which had been introduced with the Royal Scot of 1950. These were large headboards, five feet wide rather than the usual three, and with a large round-ended oblong panel carrying the name, surmounted by a crest. For the Caledonian, this was the paired shields of St Andrew and St George (see above), representing Scotland and England. This basic design was used throughout the life of the Caledonian, although there were detail variations. The first headboard was flat painted steel, later replaced by cast aluminium with a raised rim. After diesel traction was introduced, from 1962, as usual a smaller version of the headboard was used instead. This was now of painted wood, three feet wide, and had The Caledonian split across two lines.

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