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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: lnwrrm756

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 Patriot class No 45541 'Duke of Sutherland' stands in the dump line at Rugby

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 Patriot class No 45541 'Duke of Sutherland' stands in the dump line at Rugby. The chimneys of withdrawn locomotives were often covered to prevent the ingress of water as this would enter the steam passages and rust the valves, pistons etc. It was a precautionary move as it enabled the locomotive to be returned to service should the need arise as it appears to be in this case as No 45541 was officially recorded as being withdrawn in May 1962 from Nuneaton shed. Built at Crewe works in August 1933 nominally as a rebuild of a LNWR Claughton it was cut up at Crewe works in September 1962.

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