LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Atherstone Station: lnwr_ath1069

View of Atherstone station looking in the direction of Rugby with the original station building still evident on the left and the signal box in the centre of the four tracks on 6th June 1946. The configuration of the signal box was unusual but not unknown in the railway world. In front of the signal box is the passenger footbridge also built at the time of the quadrupling of the tracks. The up and down platform awnings are quite dissimilar, revealing the station's piecemeal ancestry, and whilst the down platform's canopy (on the right) is quite normal being cantilevered out supported by iron brackets, the forest of supports on the up platform (on the left) can be clearly seen.

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