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: lnwrrm3308

Ex-LMS 6P 4-6-0 No 45529 'Stephenson' passes through Rugby on an up Type 4 freight service on 15th September 1962. British Railways categorised a Type 4 service as an 'Express freight train pipe fitted throughout with the automatic brake operative on NOT less than 90% of the vehicles. Maximum speed 55 mph. A maximum speed of 60 mph will apply in respect of certain trains specifically indicated in the Working Timetable'. This locomotive had originally been built by Crewe works in April 1933 to Henry Fowler's parallel boilered 'Patriot Class' design and named 'Sir Herbert Walker' which it carried until 1937. In July 1948 with its parallel boiler now life expired, No 45529 was rebuilt with Stanier's 2A tapered boiler which it carried until February 1964, after being named 'Stephenson' in September 1959. when it was withdrawn from 16B Annesley shed to be scrapped by Crewe works.

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