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: lnwrrm1047

LMS 4-6-0 'Royal Scot' is seen on 18th Aug 1928 fitted with an experimental design to move smoke away from the chimney whilst at the head of the up Lakes Express. The very wide smokebox was one of the largest on a british locomotive and cause smoke to obscure the drivers view. Initially a number of methods were attempted to resolve this problem including the one above before the smoke deflectors seen in other images were adopted as the universal solution. Number 6100 was part of the second batch of locomotive, built in house at Derby works rather than by external contractors as in the first batch, to Lot 73 in June 1930. Retired in October 1962 No 6100 is nominally preserved but is in fact No 6152 'The Kings Dragoon Guardsman' having swapped identities in 1933 when the locomotive was required in the USA as part of the Century of Progress Exposition of 1933.

Following the exhibition No 6100 toured Canada and the United States with a train of typical LMS carriages. It was given a special commemorative plates that sit below its nameplates which read: This locomotive with the Royal Scot train was exhibited at the Century of Progress Exposition Chicago 1933, and made a tour of the Dominion of Canada and the United States of America. The engine and train covered 11,194 miles over the railroads of the North American continent and was inspected by 3,021,601 people. W. Gilbertson - Driver T. Blackett - Fireman J. Jackson - Fireman W.C. Woods - Fitter

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