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 - Pre-grouping Locomotives: lnwrrm839

An unidentified LNWR 4-6-0 Prince of Wales class locomotive is seen entering the station on a down express as it passes under the GC bridge circa 1920-22. The Prince of Wales class was in effect, a superheated version of the LNWR's Experiment class 4-6-0 introduced in 1911 by Charles Bowen-Cooke. A total of two hundred and forty-five were built for the LNWR of which one hundred and thirty-five were built between 1911 and 1919 by Crewe works and, unusually for the LNWR, with a further one hundred and ten being built by outside builders: twenty were built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1915–1916, and ninety were built by William Beardmore & Company in 1921–22. The LNWR policy of reusing names and numbers from withdrawn locomotives resulted in a numbering system which was completely haphazard. All members of the class passed into the ownership of the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The LMS allocated the power classification 3P to the class and renumbered them into a more logical series of numbers, Nos 5600 to 5844. A final locomotive was built by William Beardmore & Company in February 1924, which was displayed at the British Empire Exhibition in the same year. The LMS bought the locomotive in November 1924 and allocated it as No 5845.

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