4 track Coventry corridor

[PAS48]

Is the new HS2 bridge at Berkswell wide enough to accommodate 4 tracks on the WCML (if ever built)?

 

[swt_passenger]

I think it should be, HS2’s PR when the box was completed describe it as 20m wide and 91m long.

 

[BranstonJnc]

Driving under it, it doesn't look it. Neither does the Beechwood Tunnel, to be fair...

 

[P Binnersley]

According to the OPC book "An Historical Survey of Selected LMS Stations - Vol 1", the LMS were considering quadrupling the Coventry-Birmingham line in the late 1930's. This never happened, but the 1930's Coventry bypass (A45) bridge near Canley and the one built near the airport for the A45 eastbound carriageway seem to have made provision for the extra tracks.