Foleshill railway station was a
railway station
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in
Foleshill
Foleshill is a suburb in the north of Coventry in the West Midlands of England.
Longford, Courthouse Green and Rowley Green are to its north and Keresley is to its west. The population of the Ward at the 2011 census was 19,943.
History
Fole ...
,
Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its ...
,
England
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, built by the
London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom.
In 1923, it became a constituent of the Lo ...
on the line from Coventry to Nuneaton. The railway station was located in the northern part of Coventry, approximately 3 miles from the city centre, on the northern end of Lockhurst Lane in Holbrooks.
There are a few remnants of the old station, all that can be seen is the remains of one of the platforms and the railway line is still in use by both goods and passenger trains. The station was located directly to the north of the Lockhurst Lane road bridge across the railway. The station also had a signal box located on the down line just to the south of the station immediately before the road bridge, right at the foot of the pedestrian stairs off Lockhurst Lane down to Holbrooks Lane.
Labour Members of Warwickshire County Council have raised the prospect of the station reopening.
A bid was made to the Restoring Your Railway Fund in March 2020 for funding for a feasibility study into reopening the station. The bid was not successful.
Restoring Your Railway: Bids Received
Retrieved 27 December 2020
References
Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Network Map
Disused railway stations in Coventry
Beeching closures in England
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Former London and North Western Railway stations
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