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: lnwrrm721

Ex-LMS 4-6-2 Stanier Pacific No 46256 'Sir William A Stanier' on a down express seen leaving the station. The last two Coronation Pacifics were built with roller bearings and modified trailing truck under the cab. The main visible difference was the cab side sheets being short and straight across the bottom. The absence of the curved footplate in front of the cylinders was a common feature with the de-streamlined locomotives. Barry Freeman writes, "I would suggest that 'lnwrrm720', 'lnwrrm721' and 'lnwrrm815' are three photographs of the same train. The first coach (the brake van) looks to be the same one in each case. lnwrrm 739 shows a freight train, not an express. The 8F looks very much like the one just visible in 'lnwrrm 720'."

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