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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1662

View of the entrance to Nuneaton's second station station showing  on the left the canopy to Ashby Bay platform

View of the entrance to Nuneaton's second station station showing on the left the canopy to Ashby Bay platform and on the extreme left the goods yard. The goods yard under went a number of changes and it would appear from the shadows on the left that the yard seen above is similar in configuration to that seen in the 1911 plan of the station. The shadows are from wagons standing on a siding that ran alongside the Midland Goods Shed in the station yard as shown in image 'lnwrns1682'. According to the 1911 drawing this siding led to Swinnerton's Saw Mill although it allowed Midland Railway wagons to return to the main line without passing through the shed. Peter Lee writes 'this is Nuneaton's second Trent Valley Station looking north on the down side, with the Burton on Trent and Loughborough Bay lines with their overhead roof to the left of the picture. A large crane for unloading goods next to it. This new station was erected circa 1873 to replace the vastly too small Livock building. It continued in use until circa 1913 when a contract was awarded to Eli Kelley, a Coventry contractor, to replace it with the third station we see today. Due to the onset of WW1 the work was considerably slowed down and new buildings were erected in the station concourse, whilst the old "Bay Lines" Platforms 1 & 2 and the north end bays were cut through to form continuous through running. This meant all the five platform faces in the station could be used by north-south traffic instead of just three adding to the flexibility of the traffic arrangements needed with a growing station.'

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