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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: lnwrcov554c
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This close up of image 'lnwrcov554' showing the LNWR and MR
Goods shed, No 2 Goods shed and the main offices. At the bottom can be seen the
footbridge, its brick rampart on the left also containing stables and storage
for silage. The Joint LNWR/MR goods shed on the left was built for the MR under
running powers that were granted on 1st September 1865. At the Warwick Road end
of this building were offices for claims and the telephone exchange. On the
other side of the entrance is the weigh bridge and office and the goods yard's
main offices. In between the two goods sheds is a 5 ton crane used to load and
unload open wagons which in this instance appears to be timber. At the bottom
left of the photograph just above the ramp to the pedestrian bridge are further
stables whilst the house just visible on the left was the yard foreman's house.
The short siding that ends near to the foreman's house was the loading and
unloading ramp used for road vehicles etc. Most of the wagons appear to be open
wagons although it is highly unlikely that any would be carrying coal as these
would have gone to Coundon Wharf, Coventry's main depot for coal, just one stop
down the Nuneaton branch. To view the layout drawing of the yard relevant to
this photograph click here.
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