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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Nuneaton Abbey Street Station: mrna1909

Abbey Street station looking towards Birmingham along the down platform in the 1920s

Abbey Street station looking towards Birmingham along the down platform in the 1920s. At that time this station had three signal boxes. One at the far end of the right hand platform, Abbey Junction box at the Leicester end of the station beyond the road overbridge, and Abbey Street Sidings box. This arrangement was re-arranged in the thirties when the box we see here and the Abbey Street Sidings box was dispensed with as part of economy measures carried out by the LMS at the time, and replaced by ground frames. The box we see here controlled access to a turntable which was located on the left hand side beyond the left hand platform. This table was used to turn engines engaged on shunting operations in the goods yard but was only suitable for the MR's small engines and was dispensed with in the 1950s. On the right of the photograph are the extensive sheds and crushing plant of the Midland Stone Quarry and the Coventry Canal separates the stone quarry from the railway. The Midland Stone Quarry did not have a siding from the main line but had a small narrow gauge railway system within the quarry itself for removal of stone. This was either rope or horse worked.

Peter Lee

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