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View looking towards Warwick Road bridge with the London Birmingham Railway locomotive shed on the left, Coventry No 2 Signal box in the middle and the parcel depot bay on the right. Horses were used to shunt goods traffic in the sidings of railways offering a more economic solution than steam power in moving single wagons around a yard. Coventry had numerous stables in the goods yard off Warwick Road yet still built for the parcel depot's horse a stable sited between the running lines and the parcel siding and in front of Coventry No 2 Signal box. By the turn of the century with the creation of a loading ramp in Warwick Goods yard there was no longer the need to off-load road vehicles at the parcels depot as seen in image 'lnwrcov1282d'. Photograph by HW Robinson © Steam Archive
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