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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: lnwrcov553
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A view of the original 1838 station building sited on
Warwick Road whilst a Bury locomotive heads a train to Birmingham. The
engraving shows that Warwick Road bridge is both narrow and standing some
distance in front of the station building the retaining wall between the bridge
and the station building being quite long and almost parallel with the line
below. Photographic evidence of the original road bridge, which lasted until
the rebuilding of Coventry station, in 1960 shows the bridge was both wider and
nearer than portrayed in this view. However its more accurate of the side
elevation of the building as this drawing shows three windows on the ground
floor and two windows on the lower ground floor. Examination of image 'lnwrcov559' indicates that were only two windows on
the ground floor and that a door existed where the two windows are shown on the
extreme right of both floors. Yet image 'lnwrcov615' shows that the above drawing was in fact
correct. The station was built outside of Coventry's boundaries and the scene
around the station was rural for many years. During much of the 1800s Coventry
was in economic decline until the 1890s when its bicycle industry suddenly
expanded with the introduction of the safety bicycle. Published in the
Illustrated Evening News 19 June 1858
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