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

Coventry Station: lnwrcov644

View of the up platform and its surviving platform structures located at the Rugby end of Coventry station circa 1962. In this view Wymans the newsagents and the adjacent general waiting room and the ladies waiting room are all that remain of platform 1's structures. Beyond can be seen the columns that remained after the bomb damage sustained in November 1940 and the new Stoney Road bridge. The new road bridge had a greater span than the original in order to accommodate the lines entering the new Parcel shed sidings. The Parcel shed can be seen behind Wymans with its distinctive curved roof. The new platform was built on top of the original platform structure from this point southwards to Rugby. Whilst being given a new platform edge capping stone the front facade of the platform retained the original brickwork which can be seen to this day.

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