LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Atherstone Station: lnwr_ath1069a

Close up of image 'lnwr_ath1069' showing the original 1847 Trent Valley Railway station building and platform complete with Livock's platform canopy. This design and configuration, a narrow platform covered by a canopy supported by cast iron columns placed at near to the platform edge with short intervals between each column, was also to be found at Nuneaton as seen in image 'lnwrns1660'. The spacing and proximity of the columns to the edge of the platform was a hindrance in boarding or alighting from trains. Subsequent regulations required any columns to be placed a minimum six feet from the platform edge.

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