Lea Hall Station

LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Lea Hall was opened by the LMS on 1st May 1939 and was to be the second station opened by the company on the Birmingham to Coventry section of the line to London. It was a simple two platform station with no goods facilities and was constructed in concrete influenced by the 1930s functional style of architecture. The station was provided to accommodate the commuter traffic that resulted from the development of new housing estates on the Eastern outskirts of Birmingham. The original platform structures were fully fronted with doors, windows and brick in-filling but sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s these were removed because of the level of vandalism. The LMS provided a service of thirteen to fifteen trains each way. The station was built with the proposed quadrupling in mind and would have accommodated the additional tracks either side of the existing platforms.

Ref: lnwrlh1068 LMS Magazine Looking along Lea Hall's up platform towards Birmingham with the main Booking Office suspended above the line

Ref: lnwrlh2829 British Railways Looking along Lea Hall's up platform towards Coventry with the Booking Office and Hall bridging both lines

Ref: lnwrlh2829a British Railways Close up of the up platform building which included the general waiting room and ladies and gentlemen's toilets

Ref: lnwrlh2829b British Railways Close up of the down platform building which in addition to the general waiting room and toilets included a bookstall

Ref: lnwrlh1595 Preston-Hendry Looking towards Coventry post-electrification from the Birmingham end of Lea Hall's down platform circa 1975

Ref: lnwrlh1596 Preston-Hendry View of the remodelled up platform which had to be actioned because of the rise of damage through vandalism

Ref: lnwrlh2828 Preston-Hendry Layout of the station as opened on 1st May 1939 with Coventry to the left and Birmingham to the right

Ref: lnwrlh2828a Preston-Hendry Close up of Lea Hall station's facilities which included general waiting rooms and toilets on both platforms