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: lnwrrm4360

LMS prototype main line diesel No 10000 is seen with a down express service just north of the station. It still with the raised LMS lettering on the body as it is about to pass under the 'Wooden Bridge'. LMS No 10000 and its sister unit No 10001 were the first mainline diesel locomotives built in Great Britain. They were built in association with English Electric by the LMS at Derby works, using an English Electric 1600 hp diesel engine, generator and electrics. Under British Railways, the locomotives became British Railways Class D16/1; they were initially operated primarily on mainline express passenger services on former LMS lines, both as a single unit as seen above and as a pair. In 1953, they were transferred to the Southern Region for comparison with Bulleid's British Rail Class D16/2 diesel locomotives. Both units were withdrawn and scrapped in the 1960s.

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