LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov604
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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