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Now, do any of our senior members/enthuiasts remember Nuneaton Abbey Street when it was in its heyday ?
That was a busy busy place, not only did you have the station with trains for Birmingham one way and Leicester, and the East coast the other way, also not immune to an Eastern region engine on the passenger workings, usually a B1. But it also had a very busy Abbey Street yard plus another branch line coming from the East midlands coalfields and trains of coal coming over there nine times out of ten pulled by a Midland 4F who then needed a banker up through Arley tunnel which was usually a "Super D", and back at Abbey Street there was also Judkins Quarry sidings.
Then trains coming up from the Trent valley station down below, both goods and passenger and Heavy ballast trains coming up from the North End Yard down below.
4472 has been "across the top" a couple or three times at Nuneaton on specials.
It was a marvellous, busy place and the smell of the "Bituman" plant at Judkins "wafting" through the air made the atmosphere even better.
A truly industrial, busy, genuine typical British Railways goods yard.

Now apparently.......NOTHING ! It has all gone, even the signalbox was set alight after closure by local vandals.

But does anyone remember it like me ?

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