LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Nuneaton Abbey Street Station: mrna1920

A very interesting view across the platforms at Nuneaton Abbey Street with a number of features long since gone. The corrugated iron crushing plant of the Midland Quarry Co. (also known as Ensor's Quarry after the family of farmers who scraped off the top soil to expose the dense hard diorite stone and started to quarry it). Top right the White Horse pub, the stationmaster's house, and above the DMU, the roof of the waiting room on the Leicester bound platform. The typical MR pattern diagonal slatted fencing can be well seen on the far up platform and in the foreground, the cattle dock which must have been out of use for many a year when this picture was taken in the 1960s. Out of sight is the landing dock siding where in recent years covered wagons were dropped off or attached to trains very often scouting troops in the town had their kit shipped from here. I guess it had not been used for general merchandise for some time before the siding was taken out. To the right the station bike sheds.

Peter Lee

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