Coventry Arena railway station is a prospective new railway station to serve the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, West Midlands, England. Funding for the new station was approved in December 2011.
It would be located on the Coventry-Nuneaton Line, providing Park and Ride facilities thanks to the stadium's large parking facilities. The station is planned to have two platforms on the existing double tracked line.
Confirmation came in August 2012 that construction of the new station would start in December of that year and take approximately 12 months to complete, with the station due to open in December 2013.
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