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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Coventry Station: lnwr628

Looking north towards Birmingham with the new four platform layout now well advanced by 1961

Looking north towards Birmingham with the new four platform layout now well advanced by 1961. Platform 1 remained more or less on its original alignment although it was extended further towards Birmingham past the site of the old parcel bay, under the new Warwick Road bridge and slightly into the goods yard area. This extension was much later shortened when the later electric hauled trains decreased from 12 and 14 coaches to 7 or 8 albeit longer coaches. This change was made to accommodate a smoother path through the points. The line of the old track into platform 1 is still evident in this photograph although the old Warwick Road bridge has now gone.

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