Kenilworth train station project set to get green light

[dutchman]

Plans to bring a train station back to Kenilworth look set to be approved today.


Kenilworth station as it was in 1963

The town’s not had a station since 1965 – and several schemes to bring one back have failed.

Now, Warwickshire County Council wants to spend £6.62 million on the project which would be based on the site of the current Bailey Buildbase builder’s merchants on Priory Road.

It would include a station office, two platforms, a car park and a footbridge and would be ready by 2013.

There’d be direct services to Coventry, Leamington and London by changing trains first, to Warwick, Stratford and Birmingham.