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Nuneaton Abbey Street railway station

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Former railway station in England

Nuneaton Abbey Street
The derelict main building of Abbey Street station in 1975, seven years after closure, the platforms had been removed by this time, and the building is awaiting demolition.
General information
LocationMidland Road, Nuneaton
England
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Key dates
1 December 1864Opened as Nuneaton Midland
1 September 1873Rebuilt and relocated
2 June 1924Renamed Nuneaton Abbey Street
4 March 1968Closed
Location

Nuneaton Abbey Street was the second main railway station serving Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England. It operated between 1864 and its closure in 1968. The other main station is Nuneaton Trent Valley which is still open, but now known as simply Nuneaton. The station served the Birmingham-Nuneaton-Leicester Line and also the now closed Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway.

It was originally opened on 1 December 1864 by the Midland Railway on their line from Birmingham to Nuneaton. The station was rebuilt in a slightly different location in 1873 when the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway was opened. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.

1912 map showing the railways around Nuneaton, and the location of the station.

Until 2 June 1924 it was known as Nuneaton Midland. It was renamed as Nuneaton Abbey Street to avoid confusion with Trent Valley station when the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway were grouped to create the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). The station came under the control of British Railways in 1948.

The station was closed on 4 March 1968, and all services were diverted through Trent Valley station. Today, trains still run past the site of the station on the Birmingham-Leicester-Peterborough Line, but little physical trace of the station remains, as the platforms and most of the station buildings have been removed. In 2018 the only remaining remnant of the station was a former waiting room, now within a private garden.

References

  1. "Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. Nuneaton Abbey Street Station, Warwickshire 11 June 2007 from Flickr.com
  3. "SITE OF ABBEY STATION S OF ABBEY JUNCTION, NUNEATON". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

External Links

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Terminus   Midland Railway,
London and North Western Railway
Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway 		  Higham on the Hill
Line and station closed
Stockingford
Line open, station closed 		  London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Birmingham to Leicester Line 		  Hinckley
Line and station open
Railway stations in Warwickshire
Open stations
Birmingham–Peterborough line
Chiltern Main Line
Coventry–Leamington line
Coventry to Nuneaton line
Leamington–Stratford line
North Warwickshire Line
West Coast Main Line
Disused
Alcester–Bearley line
Birmingham–Peterborough line
Chiltern Main Line
Coventry–Leamington line
Coventry to Nuneaton line
Gloucester loop line
Great Central Main Line
Honeybourne Line
Weedon–Marton Junction line
Rugby–Leamington line‎
Stonebridge Railway
Shipston-on-Stour branch
Stratford-upon-Avon
and Midland Junction Railway
Trent Valley Line (WCML)
Birmingham loop (WCML)
Miscellaneous stations

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