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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov620a
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Close up of image 'lnwr620' showing the London end of the up
platform, the water column, ash pit and the original and new signals. The
platform was extremely narrow in width with bench seating placed against the
rear wall. The ash pit and piles of ash is also evidence that it was common
practice at Coventry for locomotives to have their fires raked and the ash
removed. This may seem a little surprising as the locomotives had only
travelled a maximum of 20 miles from Birmingham and much less on the branch
line from Nuneaton. However the original locomotives supplied to the L&B by
Bury were very small and ash would soon accumulate in the firebox affecting the
locomotives steaming abilities. The water column appears to be of a similar
pattern to the L&B column which still existed on the down platform (see
image 'lnwrcov615' until the station was rebuilt
in 1960. In all probability it may well be the original up platform water
column as depicted in Gerald Broom's painting of
Coventry station later moved to this location during the 1840 rebuilding.
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