Coventry Railway Station - Services

Services

The station is served by CrossCountry, London Midland and Virgin Trains. In the past, it has also been served by Silverlink, but these routes were transferred to Central Trains in 2004. Central Trains and Virgin Cross Country services were respectively transferred to London Midland and CrossCountry in 2007.

There is a small yard at the Birmingham end of the station, in front of the shopping centre that was once part of Coventry's yard, that is used by London Midland for the stabling of electric traction units, no heavy work is carried out at Coventry as that is done at either Soho in Smethwick (for Class 323 EMU) or Northampton Siemens depot (Class 350 & 321 EMUs), previously the 321 EMUs were maintained at Bletchley TMD in Buckinghamshire. All diesel units are stabled at Tyseley in Birmingham where they are cleaned, maintained and refuelled. These units are only used on the local service to Nuneaton.

Until 2004, Coventry had a direct service to Nottingham via Leicester, but this was discontinued because Network Rail took away the ability for trains coming from Coventry to cross to the Leicester line at Nuneaton. Before Central Trains was broken up, there was talk of restoring the service, but since services are on the line to Leicester are now part of Cross Country, it is unlikely.

Also, when Cross Country was handed over to Arriva, the route via Wigan and Preston was excluded from the franchise and was included in the West Coast Franchise. Subsequently, CrossCountry now uses the route via York to get to Scotland so Coventry lost its few direct trains to places in the North West besides Manchester.

The Current day time service:

• 4 trains per hour to London Euston – three express and one semi-fast via Northampton
• 7 trains per hour to Birmingham New Street – some trains continue onwards
• 2 trains per hour to Northampton (one continues onto London Euston)
• 1 Cross Country train per hour to the North (Manchester Piccadilly) via Birmingham New Street
• 1 train per hour to Nuneaton
• 1 train per hour to Leamington Spa and the south, usually Bournemouth (Cross Country)

In addition to the usual Ticket Office, the station has a Travel Centre for information, tickets for advance travel, ferry services, for rail passes, and other services.