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: lnwrrm3320

LNWR Greater Britain Class 2-2-2-2 No 528 'Richard Moon' is posed in the distance on the Northampton down line with 2pm corridor stock on 13th June 1897. Philip Millard of the LNWR Society writes, 'the coaching stock can be identified as follows:

• West Coast Joint Stock 42ft 0in Corridor Brake Third (D.71 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 42ft 0in Corridor First (D.55 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 47ft 9in First Class Dining Saloon ( transferred to London North Western Railway in 1906, D.31A in the 1915 LNWR Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 50ft 6in Third Class Dining Saloon ( transferred to London North Western Railway in 1906, D.41 in the 1915 LNWR Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 45ft 0in Corridor Third (D.53 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 42ft 0in Corridor Brake Third (D.68 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 42ft 0in Corridor Composite (D.54 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 65ft 6in Composite Dining Saloon (D.10 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 42ft 0in Corridor Composite (D.54 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 45ft 0in Corridor Brake Third (D.44 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 45ft 0in Corridor Composite (D.31 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• West Coast Joint Stock 45ft 0in Corridor Brake Composite (D.43 in 1915 Diagram Book)

These 42ft 0in and 45ft 0in carriages were already obsolesecent at the time when the photograph was taken in June 1897. In July 1897 the first West Coast Joint Stock (WCJS) 50ft 0in designs emerged from Wolverton.

Kitchen Firsts/Thirds were synonymous with Dining Saloons, which were usually made of a Kitchen area (either central or at one end) and a Dining Area for passengers. These early WCJS diners operated in pairs, and later as a triple set. More details may be found in the book "A Register of West Coast Joint Stock" published by the HMRS. They did not carry any indication of the class of passenger for whom they were intended, and it is possible that they were sometimes used as "unclassed"'.

Bob Haddon writes, 'in the foreground can be seen the hollows that I think were caused by the L&B Railway extracting sand from the pit and used in the building of the railway, it got its name "Ballast Hole" as it was used later by the LNWR to dump spent ballast. In the 1950s Rugby Borough Council used the area to infill with household rubbish. When levelled BR remodeled the sidings and used them to store equipment and built offices used in the electrification of the WCML. All this was very helpful to a youngster such as me, as I managed to cab many locomotives during the school holidays, sent to shunt and drop of wagons of all types and ride up and down the sidings in the cabs the usual engines were Stanier 8F's but on more than one occasion an LMS 0-6-0. My best memory was riding on the footplate of a Stanier 8F propelling wagons on the up main almost to Kilsby tunnel to drop of hardware for the overhead at several places. On return we came back working wrong line doing about 40mph so as not to hold up the up "Caledonian" express. I will never forget standing on the tender plate with the loco lurching one way with the tender going the opposite very exciting to a 8/9 year old'.

Rugby Station: lnwrrm3320a

The above coaches seen in close up are:

• WCJS 42ft 0in Corridor Brake Third (D.71 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 42ft 0in Corridor First (D.55 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 47ft 9in First Class Dining Saloon ( transferred to London North Western Railway in 1906, D.31A in the 1915 LNWR Diagram Book)

Philip Millard

Rugby Station: lnwrrm3320b

The above coaches seen in close up are:

• WCJS 50ft 6in Third Class Dining Saloon ( transferred to London North Western Railway in 1906, D.41 in the 1915 LNWR Diagram Book)
• WCJS 45ft 0in Corridor Third (D.53 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 42ft 0in Corridor Brake Third (D.68 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 42ft 0in Corridor Composite (D.54 in 1915 Diagram Book)

Philip Millard

Rugby Station: lnwrrm3320c

The above coaches seen in close up are:

• WCJS 65ft 6in Composite Dining Saloon (D.10 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 42ft 0in Corridor Composite (D.54 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 45ft 0in Corridor Brake Third (D.44 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 45ft 0in Corridor Composite (D.31 in 1915 Diagram Book)
• WCJS 45ft 0in Corridor Brake Composite (D.43 in 1915 Diagram Book)

Philip Millard

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