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: lnwrrm2454d

Close up of image 'lnwrrm2454' showing the part of the 1885 station and on the right, the enginemen's lodging house behind the engine shed. To the right of the train shed is part of Rugby's carriage sheds and above this building the site of the horse dock. When conceived and built in the early 1880s Rugby was a very important hub for the LNWR, being the junction between the former London Birmingham Railway and the Trent Valley Railway plus three branch lines to Leamington, Leicester and Peterborough. Locomotive power for much of the 19th century had an effective range of approximately one hundred miles and as Rugby was more or less mid-distance between Crewe and Euston, a distance of 168 miles, it became the natural changing locomotives.

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