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

Coventry Station: lnwr559

A Bury 2-2-0, on an up train, arrives at Coventry's ornate L & B station. As this view shows, the platform consisted only of a slightly raised hardstanding and was accessed by two flights of steps coming down from a "terraced" area.

There are inconsistences when comparing these early lithographs with each other, which are in essence artists' impressions. Whilst image "lnwr553" shows the station building as having two storeys at the rear of the property, to the right in this view, the above impression would imply that it was a single storey structure.

To date the contributors have not seen any early drawings of the L & B engine shed and pump house that we maintain has for years has been wrongly described as the "Midland Shed" although there is written contemporary evidence. The nearest lithographic evidence we have is seen here on the right, as the structure with the tall chimney is the pump house.

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