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: lnwrrm881

Magnificent view of the northern approach to Rugby station from the North West was taken just after grouping, mainly to show the British Thomson-Houston Works and sidings but it shows much else besides. On the far left, the line from Leicester can be seen coming in over the brick arch, on a slightly higher level than the ex-L&NWR main line in the centre. The long footbridge on the right gave access to the factory for the BTH workforce.

At the left hand end of it can be seen Rugby Midland Signal Box. A replacement box was opened here on 29th March 1925 and, from the state of it, one would assume this is the old cabin, itself a replacement for an earlier box, opened in 1886. If this is correct, it dates the photograph to between 1923 and March 1925.

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