London Midland Scottish Railway Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Kenilworth Station: lnwrk164a

This close up of image 'lnwrk164' shows the goods yard which was sited off the down (Coventry) line at the Coventry end of the station. The original station's goods yard was sited at the other end of the station pre-1883, whilst this side of the original station housed the coal yard sidings. The original coal sidings were in place by 1846 as were the two sidings, opposite Whitemoor Brickworks, that acted as both head shunts to the original coal yard (later to be the post-1883 goods yard) and refuge sidings for passing goods traffic.

The rebuilding of the station not only led to the swapping of the locations of the goods yard and coal yard sidings etc but also in the size of each one. The new coal yard sidings whilst having the same number as before, three, were much longer and there was a greater amount of yard available for local coal merchants. The goods yard enjoyed a greater number of sidings having three of moderate length compared to two curved lines, joined together at each end, ending at a wagon turn table where three short lines radiated off to a goods shed, carriage landing and raised platform for off-loading.

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