LMS Route: Hampton in Arden to Whitacre

Coleshill later Maxstoke Station: mrcm166

View of Chester Road overbridge which accommodated only one line of the branch because it was built after the railway was singled. The Chester Road was once the main route to the North West from Coventry and district prior to the opening of the M6. Packington Hall Estate sidings, just beyond the bridge, served to transport coal inwards and timber outwards. The sidings were closed for this purpose by the 1930s. C1956

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