Railways around Coventry

Hams Hall Power Station, (now demolished), was the first to have Bristol Siddeley Aero Derivative Gas Turbines fitted, partly Manufactured and fully Assembled at Parkside & Ansty. Second was St. Helier, Jersey, early 1960's. Sorry, off topic I know ! Delete in a few days Moderators

Hi all Recovery work well underway following on from the low speed but damaging derailment, but services between Nuneaton & Birmingham are not expected to resume until after the weekend.

Coventry Station 1905.

A busy scene late Friday afternoon at Coventry. Standing room only on most trains, including the 17.42 Ninky-Nonk that I travelled to the Ricoh aboard. Whilst I was waiting, class 66 came off the Nuneaton line & made its way on to the Leamington line. Ten minutes later, the down 17.25 Manchester Cross-Country service, which also uses the Leamington line was announced as twenty minutes late, owing to congestion. Hardly surprising, hey!

Apols if this has been seen before but as there are a few train fans on here - this is quite a rare image of our very own 46240 City of Coventry in the early 40's next to Quinton Road. Rarer still as it's wearing its streamline bodywork which it only wore until 1946. Shame all that's left is what is hanging on the station wall.

Hi all, Rail cleaner passes the Ricoh yesterday.

Hi all I am delighted to report that our local Ricoh station is currently well used. This pic at 1.25pm today where I counted fourteen passengers waiting for the 1.28pm Ninky-Nonk to Coventry, plus me. The restriction is that it is just an hourly service at present, but by timing it right, I am at Coventry station in ten minutes, not forty five minutes by two buses or over twenty minutes by taxi. The sooner Coventry station has a bay platform to house this service, the sooner the service can be half hourly. ps. Thanks are due to Rob, for sorting the photo gremlins affecting our website. Brill!

Virgin Trains have removed the Friday afternoon restrictions on Off-Peak tickets from London Euston. This was trialled in the summer and has now been made permanent. Off-Peak tickets are also valid on the early morning 05:11 and 06:11 Virgin trains from Coventry to London Euston (but not the slower 06:06). This is a long standing concession which is not well advertised. If you buy your ticket on-line it is possible to combine advance, off-peak and anytime tickets. This means that you can travel out on an Advance ticket and return on a 'web' Off-Peak single (half the return). This can not be done at booking offices. Peter. (Fares and restrictions can change - always check before you travel).

These cobbles outside the station entrance are one of the few remains of the pre-war Coventry station. They will be replaced under the Friargate development. Peter.

PeterB, is nothing sacred these days.

Years of treading over those and I never realised/thought about that Peter! Thank you

I've been looking on the NLS map comparison site and it seems that section of cobbling in front of today's station where the buses stop was actually on Park Road. Today's Park Road ends as it enters Station Square - the station building then was set slightly further south than it is now. Marked by the Red X here - anyone know what the 'Kielder' was? UPDATE - actually looking around and south of there at the time (the map is around 1900) there were a lot of grand houses all over that area and all named individually and marked as such on the map. Hylands was one - which is today's hotel - Glencairn on the map another. Peter, are there any other 'remains' left?

Newspaper archives again Neil. In the early 1900 Kielder, Eaton Road is the home of a family called Newsome-Bushill. There are several articles and adverts, one advertising for a groom/gardener so I should imagine it was a large house.