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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1682

Plan showing Nuneaton station's down platform and station building after extensive remodelling to accommodate bays at either end for the Ashby and Coventry branches

Plan showing Nuneaton station's down platform and station building after extensive remodelling to accommodate bays at either end for the Ashby and Coventry branches. Whilst the 1911 diagram is limited to the down platform and surrounding area a number of changes are visible compared to that seen in image 'lnwrns1694'. On the left the bridging carrying the railway over the Hinckley road has been replaced with a bridge carrying the road over the railway. It has to be assumed that the original bridge was too small with limited clearance coupled with a high water table making the option of sinking the road much lower impractical. The station yard is now occupied by Swinnerton's Saw Mill and larger goods sheds and outhouses. A siding providing access to the goods yard by wagon turntable sited on a siding adjacent to the Ashby bay is still in existence although this is now supplemented by sidings fanning out from a connection with the Trent Valley some distance away from the station in the direction of Stafford. In addition to a new and much larger LNWR shed is a Midland Railway goods shed. The existence of a Midland Railway shed was not unusual as many railway company had facilities located at a station where they had no running lines. The allocation of running rights was often a method employed by developers to overcome objections by other railways in the planning stages of the line or indeed other lines elsewhere. The Midland Railway enjoyed running rights to Coventry which included the erection of a goods shed in the LNWR goods yard. The bay platform is also a previously unknown feature and might have been used for traffic to and from Coventry.

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