LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs7

Ex-ROD 2-8-0 class O4/3 No 63739 is seen working hard on an up empty mineral train just south of Rugby station. Built as ROD No 1807 by North British Locomotive Company in October 1917 the locomotive was renumbered at grouping by the LNER as No 6285 and in 1946 as No 3739 before being renumbered by British Railways as No 63739 which it carried until withdrawn in October 1965 from 41J Langwith Junction shed.

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