LMS Route: Trent Valley Line

LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Nuneaton Station: lnwrns3810

A gang of men start the process of installing overhead electrification at the south end of Nuneaton station. Careful observation will show the two wagons on the left have timbers laid to bridge between the two wagons whilst each wagon has two wheelbarrows full of stone ready to be moved. The former British Railways warehouse (originally a weaving factory) in the background and the set of railings known to generations of railwaymen as the 'Birdcage' because a narrow pathway led off on the right to Nuneaton shed, edged with these railings on the track side and the back garden walls of the houses in Glebe Road on the other and this had a slightly claustrophobic effect on the enginemen using it. The Birdcage was taken up and pushed back as the electrification posts went in, and still maybe there buried under the foliage and creepers that have grown up over the fenceline. I estimate the year is 1962 when the photograph was taken.

Peter Lee

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