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LMS 2-6-0 + 0-6-2 Beyer Garrett No 7982 is seen passing BTH with an up coal train in June 1939. Its assumed the locomotive came off the Leicester branch but the reason why and whether she returned back over Midland metals is apparently lost in time. Robert Haddon writes, according to Fred Oliver fireman and driver from 2A, Beyer Garretts could be seen regularly in Rugby via the Leicester line working coal trains from Toton to Willesden. He enjoyed firing these locos as they had a rotary bunker in the tender making a coal hungry engine easier to fire. But other firemen hated them. Tony Lear writes, the London-bound coal trains from the East Midlands tended to come down the Leicester to Rugby (Midland) route. The returning empties were often routed along the Northampton to Market Harborough line to avoid having to cross all the up and down running lines to access the Leicester Branch at Rugby. Michael Byng writes, the appearance of a Garratt at Rugby would have been off a coal train from Toton, they were not uncommon in the area. Indeed one disgraced itself at Hawkesbury Lane in 1943 when it derailed.
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