LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Coventry Station: lnwrcov554

An aerial view of the station, the goods yard and shed. As can be seen the whole site was effectively of two halves divided by Warwick Row bridge which with the Leamington branch compelled the station to operate within a comparatively very short distance.

Platform 1, on the left, was extended further to benefit London bound trains, Leamington trains being shorter and exiting the platform via a crossing three-quarters of the way up its length. Platform 2, on the right, had to accommodate both the Leamington branch entering from the top of the photograph as well as being shortened by the L & B shed and pumping house located before Warwick Road bridge.

The lower footbridge was required by a historic right of way and crossed to Spencer Park. The track running parallel and immediately next to Spencer Park was the route to Birmingham and off this, just out of sight below the photograph, the branch to Nuneaton. C1919

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