Coventry railway station
Coventry 
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View of platforms.
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| Location | |
| Place | Coventry |
| Local authority | City of Coventry |
| Coordinates | 52°24′03″N 1°30′51″W / 52.400874°N 1.514053°WCoordinates: 52°24′03″N 1°30′51″W / 52.400874°N 1.514053°W |
| Grid reference | SP33057822 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | COV |
| Managed by | Virgin Trains |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | B |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 5.427 million |
| – Interchange |
0.276 million |
| 2012/13 |
5.640 million |
| – Interchange |
0.288 million |
| 2013/14 |
5.961 million |
| – Interchange |
0.330 million |
| 2014/15 |
6.252 million |
| – Interchange |
0.340 million |
| 2015/16 |
6.921 million |
| – Interchange |
0.401 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for West Midlands |
| Zone | 5 |
| History | |
| 1838 1960 |
Opened Rebuilt |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | Coventry Station, including attached platform structures |
| Listing grade | Grade II listed |
| Entry number | 1242849 |
| Added to list | 24 November 1995 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Coventry from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Coventry railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It is situated about 250 yards to the south of junction 6 of the inner ring road. The station is on the Birmingham loop of the West Coast Main Line (WCML), and is at the centre of a junction where the lines to Nuneaton, and to Leamington converge.
Coventry station has regular services between London Euston and Birmingham New Street on the West Coast Main Line. Other services are extended to/from Wolverhampton, Preston, Glasgow and Edinburgh Waverley. There are also long distance CrossCountry services to Manchester to the north, and Oxford and Bournemouth to the south. Local services also operate between Coventry-Nuneaton, Northampton and Leamington Spa.
The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.
The original station was built in 1838 as part of the London and Birmingham Railway and could be entered from Warwick Road, where two flights of stairs took the passengers down to the platform. Within two years it had been replaced, with a new larger station, a few hundred feet nearer to Rugby, this time, accessed via Eaton road. In the late 19th century the Coventry tram network extended to the station at Eaton Road. The original station remained in service as the station masters offices, until the station was redeveloped in the early 1960s by the London Midland Region of British Railways.
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