Arena Specials Make Loss
This is the headline in a news item in the May 2015 Edition of Modern Railways.
It describes how the locomotive-hauled services to Coventry Arena station to serve rugby matches at the nearby stadium have not been a success.
Reading the item in the magazine, makes me think that building this station and providing a match-day service, might not have been properly thought through.
It now looks like an expensive special train hired at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds isn’t the answer.
I don’t think that this station will see reasonable levels of use, until the Coventry to Nuneaton Line is electrified and the shuttle is run by a four-car electrical multiple unit.
Electrification is at least likely to happen, to allow electrically-hauled freight trains to use the route.
The Anonymous Widower 