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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk164a

Close up of Kenilworth station's general goods yard and goods shed with an assortment of mineral wagons and oil tankers in the yard

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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