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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: lnwrcov2775
An early view of the demolition of Coventry station seen
from Warwick Road bridge looking south to Rugby. The parcel depot is still in
place but much of the northern part of the up platform's buildings have been
removed from the depot to the passenger footbridge. To the left of the
footbridge a large section of temporary roof supported by scaffolding has been
erected. On the right it would appear that all of the down platform's buildings
have been removed leaving only the LNWR lower quadrant signal. The L&BR
water column seen in image 'lnwrcov615' which
stood next to the signal has also been removed but in this instance to be
preserved where it is now on show at the National Railway Museum. The
locomotive passing through on an up service is ex-LMS 'Black 5' 4-6-0 No 45431
which was built by the Armstrong Whitworth Company in November 1937. The
locomotive was to remain in service until December 1937 when it was withdrawn
from 8F Spring Branch shed in Wigan.
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