Lea Hall

LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Lea Hall was opened by the LMS on 1st May 1939 and was to be the second station opened by the company on the Birmingham to Coventry section of the line to London. It was a simple two platform station with no goods facilities and was constructed in concrete influenced by the 1930s functional style of architecture. The station was provided to accommodate the commuter traffic that resulted from the development of new housing estates on the Eastern outskirts of Birmingham. The original platform structures were fully fronted with doors, windows and brick in-filling but in the late 1960s and early 1970s these were removed because of the level of vandalism. The LMS provided a service of thirteen to fifteen trains each way. The station was built with the proposed quadrupling in mind and would have accommodated the additional tracks either side of the existing platforms. For more information see Messrs Preston-Hendry and Powell-Hendry book 'An Historical Survey of Selected LMS Stations Layouts and Illustrations'.

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Ref: lnwrlh1068 - LMS Magazine Looking towards Birmingham from the Coventry end of the up platform showing the main booking office located above the line

Ref: lnwrlh1595 - R Preston-Hendry View of Lea Hall station post-electrification looking towards Coventry from the Birmingham end of the down platform

Ref: lnwrlh1596 - R Preston-Hendry View of the remodelled up platform which had to be actioned because of the rise of damage through vandalism

Ref: lea_hall layout Layout of the station as opened on 1st May 1939 with Coventry to the left and Birmingham to the right