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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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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 - Pre-grouping Locomotives: lnwrrm839
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An unidentified LNWR 4-6-0 Prince of Wales class locomotive
is seen entering the station on a down express as it passes under the GC bridge
circa 1920-22. The Prince of Wales class was in effect, a superheated version
of the LNWR's Experiment class 4-6-0 introduced in 1911 by Charles Bowen-Cooke.
A total of two hundred and forty-five were built for the LNWR of which one
hundred and thirty-five were built between 1911 and 1919 by Crewe works and,
unusually for the LNWR, with a further one hundred and ten being built by
outside builders: twenty were built by the North British Locomotive Company in
19151916, and ninety were built by William Beardmore & Company in
192122. The LNWR policy of reusing names and numbers from withdrawn
locomotives resulted in a numbering system which was completely haphazard. All
members of the class passed into the ownership of the London Midland and
Scottish Railway. The LMS allocated the power classification 3P to the class
and renumbered them into a more logical series of numbers, Nos 5600 to 5844. A
final locomotive was built by William Beardmore & Company in February 1924,
which was displayed at the British Empire Exhibition in the same year. The LMS
bought the locomotive in November 1924 and allocated it as No 5845.
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