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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Longford & Exhall: lnwr_le1482c

Close up showing an unidentified LNWR 4-4-0 locomotive at the head of a Coventry to Nuneaton local passenger service

Close up of image 'lnwr_le1482' showing an unidentified LNWR 4-4-0 locomotive at the head of a Coventry to Nuneaton local passenger service. This was the final line to connect to Coventry and was opened by the LNWR on 2nd September 1850 with stations at Counden Road (Coundon Road from 1894), Foleshill, Longford and Exhall - which closed in 1949, Hawkesbury Lane, Bedworth, and Chilvers Coton. The stations on the Nuneaton to Coventry line, together with those on the Coventry to Leamington line, closed to passengers on 18th January 1965.

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