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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: lnwrrm3054b

Close showing the two LNWR locomotives heading a northbound passenger express service

Close of up image 'lnwrrm3054' showing the two LNWR locomotives heading a northbound passenger express service. Behind the two locomotives is a LNWR 0-6-0 DX Goods Engine running tender first. The pilot locomotive, nicknamed 'Jumbos', were officially known as the 'Improved Precedent' class and were developed from John Ramsbottom's Newton Class 2-4-0 Locomotive Class' of 1866–73. The Jubilee class engine was the first type of four cylinder compound passenger locomotive designed by Webb, 40 of which were built at Crewe works from 1897. They were a 4-4-0 type of locomotive with driving wheels 7ft 1in diameter and had coupling rods 9ft 8in long which at that time were the longest in the country. These engines were used on the heaviest and fastest trains on the line, until in 1901 they were superseded by Webb's 'Alfred the Great' class, which were very similar but with larger boilers.

Prototype information courtesy of LNWR Society.

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