Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The railway from Rugby to Leamington Spa was a 15-mile branch line built by the London & North Western Railway and opened in 1851 The branch connected Leamington with the mainline from London to Birmingham, now the West Coast Main Line which had been opened in 1838 by the LNWR's predecessor, the London & Birmingham Railway. The original proposal for the line was put forward by the Rugby, Leamington and Warwick Railway Company. The Act for the railway received Royal Assent on 13 August 1846. The undertaking was sold to the LNWR on 17 November 1846.