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A view of the original 1838 station building sited on Warwick Road whilst a Bury locomotive heads a train to Birmingham

A view of the original 1838 station building sited on Warwick Road whilst a Bury locomotive heads a train to Birmingham. The engraving shows that Warwick Road bridge is both narrow and standing some distance in front of the station building the retaining wall between the bridge and the station building being quite long and almost parallel with the line below. Photographic evidence of the original road bridge, which lasted until the rebuilding of Coventry station, in 1960 shows the bridge was both wider and nearer than portrayed in this view. However its more accurate of the side elevation of the building as this drawing shows three windows on the ground floor and two windows on the lower ground floor. Examination of image 'lnwrcov559' indicates that were only two windows on the ground floor and that a door existed where the two windows are shown on the extreme right of both floors. Yet image 'lnwrcov615' shows that the above drawing was in fact correct. The station was built outside of Coventry's boundaries and the scene around the station was rural for many years. During much of the 1800s Coventry was in economic decline until the 1890s when its bicycle industry suddenly expanded with the introduction of the safety bicycle. Published in the Illustrated Evening News 19 June 1858

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