LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1661

View of the main entrance to Nuneaton's original station building showing the ornate style of Livock's architecture. To the right is the coach that ran between the town centre and the station. Opened in 1847, the station was regarded as a second-class station on the Trent Valley Railway. As Peter Lee comments in his book Nuneaton, Coventry & Leamington Railway 'within forty years its traffic would outstrip all others on the TVR line, and within thirty years it would be replaced on this site by the largest station'. Peter Lee writes 'when the Trent Valley Railway was built the Trent Valley Railway (the TVR was independent until 1846) commissioned an architect John William Livock (1815-1883) to design a unified series of station buildings and level crossing gate keepers cottages for the line. This was the result at Nuneaton. This building sufficed between 1847 and the 1870s but the track layout was altered in 1873 and new more commodious station buildings erected'.

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