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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: lnwrrm3907

An unidentified ex-LMS 'Stanier Black Five' 4-6-0 locomotive passes through Rugby at the head of an up express service with the sheds in the background on the right

An unidentified ex-LMS 'Stanier Black Five' 4-6-0 locomotive passes through Rugby at the head of an up express service with the sheds in the background on the right. The 'Black Fives' were a mixed traffic locomotive, a "do-anything go-anywhere" type, designed by Stanier, who had previously been with the GWR. In his early LMS days, he designed his Stanier Mogul 2-6-0 in which he experimented with the GWR school of thought on locomotive design. A number of details in this design he would never use again realising the superiority of details not used on the GWR. Stanier realised that there was a need for larger locomotives. These were to be the LMS version of the GWR Hall class but not a copy, as the Hall was too wide to run most places in Britain. They shared similar cylinder arrangement (two outside), internal boiler design and size and 6 foot driving wheel diameters. Introduced in 1934 and a total of eight hundred and forty-two locomotives were built between then and 1951. Members of the class survived to the last day of steam on British Railways in 1968, and eighteen are preserved.

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