LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Rugby Central Station: gcrcs173

This photograph was probably taken at the same time as image 'gcrcs172' and shows the completed station at road level. When compared to image 'gcrcs22' taken towards the end of the station's life there is little difference with the exception of a GPO telephone box and railway posters.

The road looks as if its made of earth and has yet to receive a tarmac surface. To the left of the photograph can be seen open fields showing its location was still rural at the turn of the century. The station was constructed by Topham, Jones & Railton, as part of Contract No.3 (Aylestone to Rugby).

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