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: lnwrrm2518

Ex-LMS Princess Coronation 4-6-2 No 46256 'Sir William Stanier FRS' has just been brought on shed by its crew. The driver, the gentleman on the left with the bag across his shoulder has been identified by Tony Cooper as Des Treadgold, the fireman yet to be identified. The locomotive was the penultimate member of the class to be built and was one of two locomotives to be modified including a different trailing truck making them easily distinguishable by their shorter straight bottom cab sides. The locomotive has been named after the former LMS' Chief Mechanical Engineer, Sir William Stanier, Fellow of the Royal Society, who had introduced the class ten years earlier. Built by Crewe works in December 1947 No 46256 was initially painted in LMS 1946 lined black livery. After nationalisation in 1948 No 46256 was painted in British Railway's Brunswick green, and then later in British Railway's maroon as seen above. Withdrawn in October 1964, No 46256 was the last of any of Stanier's pacific to be in service and was scrapped by J Cashmore's at Great Bridge.

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