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: lnwrrm861b

Close up of image 'lnwrrm861' showing an ex-LMS 2-8-0 8F locomotive heading a down goods as it passes under the colour light signals. Whilst the introduction of colour light signalling was more efficient and effective the loss of the many signal gantries and bracket signals meant, in the writer's view, that some of the special charm of steam railways was lost. The need to ensure that was a plentiful supply of water for the locomotives can be judged by the fact that there are four water columns in this view. One is on the left in the distance near the footbridge, another is next to the colour light's right-hand column. A third is by the locomotive on the down line and the fourth is next to the 7-plank wagon on the right.

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