Trent Valley Railway (London and North Western Railway)






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.









The former village station of Bulkington lies South of Nuneaton and East of Bedworth. The station building is fine, the steps from the road bridge are ...
Ken Strachan 10/08/2010
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This is the point at which the Trent Valley four tracking starts. The junction is so new that I don't know its name yet; but I do know that the houses ...
Ken Strachan 09/08/2010
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Its always worth checking out trains lurking away from the usual boarding areas. For example, you might see 730010 on platform 5 at Nuneaton, ...
Ken Strachan 10/06/2022
Agreed ...
Ken Strachan 06/10/2020
Is it just me, or does 66420 resemble a golden labrador enjoying itself on grass? It was heading for Felixstowe from Trafford Park in May 2021 when it ...
Ken Strachan 27/05/2021
The ersatz Midland Pullman shows a clean pair of heels as it leaves Nuneaton platform 5 (see image 75173) in December 2020. ...
Ken Strachan 12/12/2020
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This curve from the MR Ashby-Birmingham route see image 26581 into the WCML and Nuneaton Trent Valley (former) platform 5 makes a pleasant ...
Ken Strachan 18/12/2011
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Sadly, there is just one passenger awaiting the 11.00 to Crewe on 1st February 2018. I had arrived just in time to catch a freight off the Nuneaton ...
Ken Strachan 01/02/2018
Another view see image 36124 of the former stamping ground of the Beyer Garrett, this time looking towards the A5 and the WCML. ...
Ken Strachan 28/08/2015
A Northbound double Voyager runs through long shadows at the rather diminished station at Atherstone, between Nuneaton and Tamworth, on 1 June 2011. ...
Ken Strachan 01/06/2011
Walking with Beyer Garratts: this sylvan scene contrasts with its past as a colliery line using a particularly heavy and powerful locomotive (see ...
Ken Strachan 22/10/2011
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They came out of the sun at me, Captain. A Euston to Manchester service makes a dramatic approach to Polesworth. ...
Ken Strachan 01/02/2018
A Voyager service from Chester to London approaches a crudely modernised footbridge to the south of Polesworth in February 2018. ...
Ken Strachan 01/02/2018
70015 was working hard dragging 66956 (very low emissions with the engine off) and the rest of train 4921(ZZ) from Crewe to Southampton through ...
Ken Strachan 01/02/2018
GB Railfreight 66734 thunders South on the WCML through Polesworth, Warwickshire, with a colourful container train on 4th November 2011. ...
Ken Strachan 04/11/2011
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A late evening Pendolino from Euston to Preston calls at Tamworth Low Level on 18 June 2009. The High Level platform is just visible above the train. ...
John McIntyre 18/06/2009
Tamworth Railway Station booking hall on 17th November 2017. The chap in high viz clothing is covering up all the London Midland branding. Obviously ...
Alan Cormack 17/11/2017
Curiouser and curiouser. I was set to catch the 350 for London on the right, when these two DRS 37's came rumbling through, but no-one - least of all ...
Ken Strachan 07/12/2017
Yesterday upon the stair, I met a train that wasnt there ... (With apologies to William Hughes Mearns). Something different: 66538 hauling a ...
Ken Strachan 14/02/2014
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390104 calls at Platform 2, Lichfield Trent Valley, with a Manchester to Euston service on 19th November 2019. This view taken from High Level ...
Mark Bartlett 19/11/2019
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The former goods shed at Rugeley is now a plastic mouldings factory. The WCML is a few feet to the left in this view from April 2016. ...
Ken Strachan 09/04/2016
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