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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Kenilworth Station: lnwrk164a
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Close up of of image 'lnwrk164' showing Kenilworth station's
general goods yard and goods shed with an assortment of mineral wagons and oil
tankers in the yard. The original station's goods yard was sited at the other
end of the station pre-1883, whilst this side of the original station housed
the coal yard sidings. The original coal sidings were in place by 1846 as were
the two sidings, opposite Whitemoor Brickworks, that acted as both head shunts
to the original coal yard (later to be the post-1883 goods yard) and refuge
sidings for passing goods traffic. The rebuilding of the station not only led
to the swapping of the locations of the goods yard and coal yard sidings etc
but also in the size of both yards. The new coal yard whilst having the same
number of sidings as before, three, they were much longer with much more space
for local coal merchants. The goods yard enjoyed a greater number of sidings
than previous having three of moderate length compared to two passing lines,
joined together at each end, ending at a wagon turn table where three short
lines radiated off to a goods shed, carriage landing and raised platform for
off-loading.
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