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: lnwrrm875

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 Jubilee class No 45558 'Manitoba' passes the exchange sidings and yard on an up service circa 1959. Number 45558 was built by the North British Locomotive Co to order 24116 in July 1934 and lasted for thirty years being withdrawn from service in August 1964 from Newton Heath shed and was scrapped in November 1964 at Crewe works. Robert Stephenson writes, 'the first coach appears to have its reporting number pasted inside the end window, which would suggest this is an excursion train. The motley collection of rolling stock would seem to bear this out.45558 ‘Manitoba’ was a long term resident of Patricroft, so would be an unusual visitor to Rugby'.

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