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Coventry–Nuneaton line
The Coventry to Nuneaton Line is a railway line linking Coventry and Nuneaton in the West Midlands of England. The line has a passenger service. It is also used by through freight trains, and freight trains serving facilities on the route.
The current passenger stations on the route are Nuneaton, Bermuda Park, Bedworth, Coventry Arena and Coventry. Freight services run to Bedworth Murco Oil Terminal and Prologis Park Industrial Estate. The line has previously served many other small stations and now-closed goods yards.
Until 2016, the only intermediate station on the route was Bedworth. On 14 December 2011, the UK Government announced an £18.8 million project to upgrade the line, which included new stations at the Ricoh Arena and Bermuda Park (opened January 2016), lengthening of the platforms at Bedworth, and increasing the service frequency from hourly to half-hourly.
The line is currently not electrified, but it was proposed to electrify it at 25 kV AC overhead as part of the Electric Spine scheme. This part of the scheme has been scrapped with other electrification projects.
All passenger services on the line are operated by West Midlands Trains who run an hourly service in each direction between Nuneaton and Leamington Spa via Coventry and Kenilworth, since 2023 this service has been branded as the Elephant & Bear Line. In July 2016 it was announced that a prototype three coach Class 230 unit, would be trialled on the line for an initial period of 12 months. The unit consists of three rebuilt carriages of a former London Underground D78 Stock train. After the prototype unit caught fire in December 2016, it was announced in January 2017 that the planned trial had been cancelled.
Freight trains also use the line, travelling from the Chiltern Main Line via Leamington Spa, heading towards the West Coast Main Line.
The line was built for the London and North Western Railway and was opened on 2 September 1850.
On 26 January 1857, 23 of the 28 arches of the Spon End Viaduct collapsed, due to poor quality construction. This meant trains travelling south terminated at Coundon Road while the viaduct was rebuilt. This took three and a half years to complete and services to Coventry were restored on 1 October 1860.
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Coventry–Nuneaton line
The Coventry to Nuneaton Line is a railway line linking Coventry and Nuneaton in the West Midlands of England. The line has a passenger service. It is also used by through freight trains, and freight trains serving facilities on the route.
The current passenger stations on the route are Nuneaton, Bermuda Park, Bedworth, Coventry Arena and Coventry. Freight services run to Bedworth Murco Oil Terminal and Prologis Park Industrial Estate. The line has previously served many other small stations and now-closed goods yards.
Until 2016, the only intermediate station on the route was Bedworth. On 14 December 2011, the UK Government announced an £18.8 million project to upgrade the line, which included new stations at the Ricoh Arena and Bermuda Park (opened January 2016), lengthening of the platforms at Bedworth, and increasing the service frequency from hourly to half-hourly.
The line is currently not electrified, but it was proposed to electrify it at 25 kV AC overhead as part of the Electric Spine scheme. This part of the scheme has been scrapped with other electrification projects.
All passenger services on the line are operated by West Midlands Trains who run an hourly service in each direction between Nuneaton and Leamington Spa via Coventry and Kenilworth, since 2023 this service has been branded as the Elephant & Bear Line. In July 2016 it was announced that a prototype three coach Class 230 unit, would be trialled on the line for an initial period of 12 months. The unit consists of three rebuilt carriages of a former London Underground D78 Stock train. After the prototype unit caught fire in December 2016, it was announced in January 2017 that the planned trial had been cancelled.
Freight trains also use the line, travelling from the Chiltern Main Line via Leamington Spa, heading towards the West Coast Main Line.
The line was built for the London and North Western Railway and was opened on 2 September 1850.
On 26 January 1857, 23 of the 28 arches of the Spon End Viaduct collapsed, due to poor quality construction. This meant trains travelling south terminated at Coundon Road while the viaduct was rebuilt. This took three and a half years to complete and services to Coventry were restored on 1 October 1860.