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: lnwrrm881i

Close up of image 'lnwrrm881' showing the ex-LNWR 0-8-0 'Super D' goods locomotive at the head of a train of Bedwas Coke wagons with the Midland Railway Signal Box on the left. In front of the MR signal box, stabled on one of the sidings, are two Pickfords containers sitting in LMS open wagons. Another ex-LNWR locomotive can be seen standing behind the train of Bedwas Coke wagons. The footbridge was originally erected in 1850 to provide access for a right of way to Brownsover which why some 150 years later Network Rail had to provide a new bridge when they upgraded the West Coast route through Rugby. Stephen Weston writes in the LNWR Society's Journal Volume 5 Edition No 4 'The long footbridge on the right gave access between the town and the BTH factory. It is locally known as the 'Wooden Bridge' or 'Bridge 278' for those employed by the railway. Many photographs have been taken from the bridge of trains with the station behind. The reason for the building of the 'Wooden Bridge' in the first place was that it carries a public right of way to the village of Brownsover and to Brownsover Hall. When the railway was first built, a footpath crossed the line on the level; it is shown on a 2 inch plan dated about 1840. The LNWR decided to erect the first version of the 'Wooden Bridge' to keep pedestrians off the line in 1850. The Local Heath Board reacted by stating the bridge was inconvenient and violated the right of way, but the LNWR position prevailed.'

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