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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Trent Valley Line
LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Nuneaton Station: lnwrns1673
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View of Nuneaton No 1 Signal Box's Diagram showing the lines to
Leicester at the bottom and the lines to Coventry at the top. The diagram shows
the Midland Railway's line to Leicester was the up with the line
to Nuneaton being the down. The LNWR line from Nuneaton to London was the up
whilst the line from London to Nuneaton was the down. In this instance both the
'up and down' lines of the MR and the LNWR share the same configuration so that
the MR's up line joined the LNWR's up line. This was not always the case as the
LNWR, in common with most English railway companies, had London as the
destination of the up direction but the Midland had Derby as their
up destination. This reflected the fact that the Midland Railway was
very much a provincial company until they opened their extension to St Pancras
in 1868 and therefore almost literally all lines led to Derby. Consequently, at
certain locations where the two companies lines met, a train could depart on
the LNWR's down line and when it joined the MR's lines it continued on the up
line.
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