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: lnwrrm2449

The down Coronation Scot headed by an unidentified streamlined Princess Coronation class locomotive circa 1936. The Princess Coronation Class were express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier who was later knighted. They were an enlarged version of his Princess Royal Class with the first ten were built in the streamlined form seen above although this was later removed after the Second World War for ease of maintenance. The next five were built in non-streamlined form and are today often referred to as 'Duchesses', though to enginemen they were more known as 'Big Lizzies'. The Second World War initially interrupted the building of further locomotives which were built in both streamlined and non-streamlined form. They were the most powerful passenger steam locomotives ever to be built for the British railway network, estimated at 3300 horsepower and making them far more powerful than the diesel engines that ultimately replaced them.

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