Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: Ex-LMS 4-6-0 5XP No 45506 'The Royal Pioneer Corps' departs Platform 9 with the 12:52pm York to Bristol service on 18th July 1959

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br3320

Ex-LMS 4-6-0 5XP No 45506 'The Royal Pioneer Corps' departs Platform 9 with the 12:52pm York to Bristol service on 18th July 1959. Notionally rebuilt from a LNWR Claughton class locomotive by Crewe works in July 1932, this Patriot Class locomotive was named in recognition of the Corp's work during the Second World War at a ceremony at Euston in September 1948. As with many LMS 4-6-0 express locomotives No 45506's principal duties were taken over in the early 1960s by diesels and it was withdrawn in February 1962 from Barrow shed in Bristol to be scrapped in March 1962 by Crewe works.