LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Stockingford Shed: mrs402

An external view of the long closed shed with the doors now rotten leaving the building open to the elements and intruders. The trackwork is now long gone with mother nature reclaiming back a once sterile environment. The grounded coach body along side the building has been removed and in a few years there will be no evidence of the shed.

Pete Lee, in his book 'Railways of Nuneaton and Bedworth', recounts that during the Second World War the shed was used to stable locomotives overflowing from nearby Nuneaton Trent Valley shed. In addition the tracks inside the shed were used to stabilise crippled wagons and even, it was rumoured, sugar beet.

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