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Rugby-Avon Industrial Estate
The original "handmade" Rugby Ball manufacturer was based in the Town Centre for over 150 years before moving to the Industrial estate. Whether much is still made here is doubtful.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 8 Aug 2010
0.06 miles
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Rugby-Arches Lane
Looking from Prospect Way over the car breaker's yard towards the Alba warehouse.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 8 Aug 2010
0.07 miles
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Industrial units off Boughton Road
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 29 Mar 2014
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Rugby - Mill Road
Network Rail Plant Depot which was formerly Locomotive repair sheds.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 4 Oct 2006
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Rugby (LMR) Locomotive Depot
View westward in the Locomotive Yard to the Shed - with enthusiasts wandering about. At the time (1953) this principal ex-London & North Western Depot consisted of two Sheds, each with 12 roads: these may have been needed in pre-Grouping times when all main-line expresses called at Rugby, but were already superfluous in the latter days, so even on Sundays (as here) there were not many locomotives left standing out in the Yard. (Visible in this photograph are:- 4-6-0 No. 45000, 2-8-0 No. 48085, 0-8-0s Nos. 48915, 49447 and 49452, and 0-6-0T No. 47379). The Depot provided some of the motive power for freight and secondary passenger trains on the West Coast Main Line, the main line to Coventry and Birmingham, and the lines to Northampton, Market Harborough and Peterborough, also to Leicester and the branch to Leamington. Its allocation in 1954 was 88, comprising:- 38 4-6-0s, 7 4-4-0s, 10 2-8-0s, 11 0-8-0s, 7 0-6-0s, 9 2-6-4Ts, 1 2-6-2T, 1 2-4-2T and 4 0-6-0Ts. The Depot closed to steam on 25/5/65, then was used as a stabling point for Diesels for a few years after.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 15 Mar 1953
0.09 miles
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Multi storey car park
Near Rugby Railway Station.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 28 Mar 2014
0.09 miles
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Rugby-Alba Warehouse
In Mill Road, when built in the early 1980s this was the UK Headquarters of the German electronics company Grundig, who were later absorbed into the giant Philips corporation.
Image: © Ian Rob
Taken: 22 Dec 2011
0.09 miles
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Technology Drive, Rugby
Almost everything in this scene is a product of the last few years: the junction, the new road and the houses built on part of what was once the GEC works. Even the vantage point didn't exist until just over two years ago when the multi-storey station car park was built.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 16 Jan 2012
0.09 miles
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Pioneer Stanier 'Black Five' at Rugby Locomotive Depot
Seen outside the main Shed in 1953, No. 5000 was not actually the first of the 842 very successful 5P5F (later 5MT) 4-6-0s to appear, as it came out of Crewe Works in 1935 after the 5020-65 batch ordered from the Vulcan Foundry began to emerge in 1934. As 45000 it was withdrawn in 10/67 and preserved; it is now an exhibit at the National Railway Museum, York.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 15 Mar 1953
0.09 miles
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Rugby station car park
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 15 Feb 2013
0.10 miles