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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Chilvers Coton Station: lnwcc3281
A view looking towards Coventry showing Chilvers Coton
station some six months after the withdrawal of passenger services. By the 13th
June 1965 when this photograph was taken all station signage had been removed
as is indicated by the absence of the 'Running In' (station name) board on the
left. Its a big difference from just three decades earlier when passenger
numbers were very high and the prospects for the station were very good. Peter
Lee writes in his book 'Nuneaton, Coventry & Leamington Railway'
that the number of tickets being sold to commuters to Coventry exceeded nine
hundred per day in the 1930s. He also states that trains ran every ten minutes
and, reflecting the proliferation of pedal power in the working man's family,
bikes could be parked for 6d per day (2½ New Pence) with nearby cottages
offering bicycle storage facilities too.
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