LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington

Coventry Station: lnwrcov556

View of the damage sustained to the Rugby end of the up platform including bomb craters to the running line on 15th November 1940. Whilst the City of Coventry was very badly damaged by the Luftwaffe (causing the Germans to invent the expression to "Coventrate" meaning to utterly destroy) the railway wasn't too badly damaged. However the disruption through bomb damage and unexploded bombs resulted in services being terminated at Tile Hill on Birmingham services. Tile Hill was the temporary terminus because it had both a siding and run round facilities whereas Canley Halt, opened in 1940, had no such facilities.

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