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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 10:50am
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walrus
cheshire |
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 12:36pm
Thank you so much for the Foleshill Station picture, Dutchman. I'm guessing late 60s or 70s judging by the waiting room architecture? I seem to remember older buildings with wrought ironwork in the 50s. I think that many people crossed the line over the track rather than using the bridge. There was a large park on the Radford side, in those days there was actually a "Parkie" and you could rent stilts for a tanner. On the Foleshill side my dad worked at "The Albion" drop forging factory making con rods amongst other things from white hot steel, the factory was a vision of hell with a street of furnaces and steam hammers going 24 hours a day.
We kids as 11 year olds used to go from Foleshill to Nuneaton for a days trainspotting because there was so much more activity on the main line. Sometimes we would go to Rugby where there was a the chance to see Great Western locos as well as LMS. We also cycled - and frequently walked - to the bridge at Shilton, quite a trek from Bell Green. In the early 60s as diesels began to dominate I saw more exotic locos on our local line across the Stoney Stanton Rd, even saw Evening Star one summer night, hauling coal to the Gas works. Spent many a lovely evening underlining my "cops" after a days spotting. |
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dutchman
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 12:48pm
Interesting memories Walrus
![]() On 5th Feb 2012 12:36pm, walrus said:
Thankyou so much for the Foleshill Station picture, Dutchman. I'm guessing late 60s or seventies judging by the waiting room architecture?
WarwickshireRailways.com think the picture is late 1950s. The station closed to passenger services in 1965 but I believe it continued in use for parcels traffic. The last regular steam-hauled passenger service on the route was in 1959, I remember being bitterly disappointed that a trip to Kenilworth in the early 1960s had to be by DMU.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 12:51pm
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walrus
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 1:02pm
Mention of Bablake pupils etc reminds me. There was a series of halts on the Coventry Nuneaton line, Daimler Halt was in Sandy Lane and then Coundon Halt next. At the risk of veering off topic, my gran lived in Tulliver St just off Lydgate Hill. I remember the Daimler factory well and watched numberless bus chassis and armoured cars being test driven around Radford. |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 2:19pm
On 5th Feb 2012 12:51pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Over the years I saw many classes on those trains including some Eastern B1s. "Bongo" turned up one evening. I once had a tender first B1 to school from Foleshill.
I've seen a picture of a Bongo passing through Coventry station Philip but assumed it was on a cross country run from Eastern Region.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 3:31pm
On 5th Feb 2012 1:02pm, walrus said:
Mention of Bablake pupils etc reminds me. There was a series of halts on the Coventry Nuneaton line, Daimler Halt was in Sandy Lane and then Coundon Halt next. At the risk of veering off topic, my gran lived in Tulliver St just off Lydgate Hill. I remember the Daimler factory well and watched nunberless bus chassis and armoured cars being test driven around Radford.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 3:41pm
On 5th Feb 2012 2:19pm, dutchman said:
I've seen a picture of a Bongo passing through Coventry station Philip but assumed it was on a cross country run from Eastern Region.
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 3:59pm
On 5th Feb 2012 3:41pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
I bet you have some train-spot stories to tell.
Not really Philip, I was the world's worst trainspotter as a kid and it was only when I started researching the history of the lines in this area a few years ago I was able to put names to what I had seen all those years earlier.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 5:43pm
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Sun 5th Feb 2012 9:40pm
Thanks very much Philip
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 6th Feb 2012 6:04am
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heritage
Bedworth |
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Mon 6th Feb 2012 7:51am
My father's brother was killed under there in 1934. Riding his motor bike in pouring rain he ran into the back of a lorry parked under the bridge without lights. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Mon 6th Feb 2012 10:29am
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Mon 6th Feb 2012 2:06pm
On 6th Feb 2012 1:13pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
When I complete the new extention, there will be another over-bridge so (here goes) is there another pic of the same bridge in the sixties or seventies for me to do the same to that also? I have trolled through various sites but can't find anything.
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