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: lnwrrm722

An unknown Class 40 diesel heads a down named express through Rugby's avoiding line in the early 1960s. The head code 1S57 refers to the down named train 'The Royal Scot' which ran from London Euston to Glasgow. The head board is diffferent in shape to that seen in image 'lnwrrm722xx'. The origins of the Class 40 locomotive derived from the Types D16/1 prototype diesel locomotives ordered by the LMS and the Type D16/2 prototype diesel locomotives ordered by British Railways between 1947 and 1954. The biggest influence was most notably the Southern Region locomotive No 10203 which was powered by English Electric's 16SVT MkII engine which developed 2,000 bhp. The bogie design and power train of No 10203 was used almost unchanged on the first ten production Class 40s which were built by English Electric. The class were built between 1958 and 1962 eventually numbering two hundred in total. Despite their initial success, by the time the last examples were entering service they were already being replaced on some top-link duties by more powerful locomotives. As they were slowly relegated from express passenger uses, the type found work on secondary passenger and freight services where they worked for many years, the final locomotives being retired from regular service in 1985.

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