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 - LMS Period Locomotives: lnwrrm871

Ex-LNWR 'Coal Tank' 0-6-2T No 27562 is seen shunting in the vicinity of Rugby's goods sidings and yard circa 1935. The introduction of the new standard classes such as Fowler's Royal Scot class compelled LMS management to allocate blocks of numbers to one class of locomotive. Existing pre-grouping locomotives carrying a number from any of these blocks were moved to the duplicate stock series of numbering by the simple process of adding 20,000 to their number as is illustrated above.

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