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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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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 Shed: lnwrrm3006
Ex-LNWR 0-8-0 G2a No 49078 is seen standing on shed
alongside Sulzer Type 2 Diesel Locomotive Bo-Bo D 5012. The date of the
photograph is uncertain and whilst the G2a is recorded as being withdrawn in
December 1962 the Type 2, later to be classified under TOPs as a Class 24
locomotive, wasn't based at Rugby until January 1965 where it remained until
March 1966 when it was transferred to Bescot shed. The overhead catenary would
indicate that the photograph was taken in the middle 1960s. Built in January
1910 by Crewe works as a G Class locomotive LNWR No 2654, the locomotive was
renumbered by the LMS as No 9077 in August 1927, followed by being upgraded to
a G1 Class locomotive in December 1931 and then a G2a³ locomotive in June
1939. It gained its British Railways number in June 1949.
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