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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov637
View of Diesel No D5574 at the head of a promotional special
train standing at the down platform during rebuilding circa 1961. This view
shows that platform 1 is having new concrete posts positioned marking the edge
of the platform some 12' to 15' to the front of the old parcel platform.
Halfway down the up platform at a point near the old parcels office the new
platform joined the existing platform. Interestingly, as can be seen, the old
parcel platform is solid brickwork through out its length which when compared
to image 'lnwrcov611' is rather different. In
these views the platform changed from being a brick structure to a timber
framed platform at about this point. It is therefore probable that the above
brickwork dates from a very early phase of Coventry's continuous process of
building extensions and modifications during the 19th century.
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