Nuneaton railway station serves the large town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England. The station is managed by London Midland.
It is situated at the point (map: SP364921) where the Birmingham - Leicester route crosses the Trent Valley Line section of the West Coast Main Line 97 miles (156 km) north of London Euston, with a branch running to Coventry. It was known, during the period (1873–1964) when Nuneaton Abbey Street station was open, as Nuneaton Trent Valley, but it is now Nuneaton's only railway station, though many local people still refer to it as Trent Valley.
The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together, at a saving.
In 2004 two extra platforms were built on the site of the former goods loop and engineers' sidings. These new platforms - 6 and 7 - were to accommodate the Birmingham - Leicester - Stansted Airport services and reduce the number of conflicting movements across Nuneaton South Junction. This work also removed the pointwork which had allowed trains to run from Coventry to Leicester via a reversal at Nuneaton.
Nuneaton is a Penalty fare station when travelling on London Midland services.
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