Nuneaton - Coventry every 30 minutes, with alternate extensions every 60 minutes continuing to Leamington Spa should if the paths work out.
The bay platform will be for the Nuneaton - Coventry terminators, plus maybe additional trains to Arena when there are events on there. Perhaps nuneatonmark or The Planner could comment further?
Yes, eventually. By railway timings though it’ll be mid 2020’s before all that is up and running if you ask me.
Points need to be installed at Arena first for the turnback. Or run up to Hawkesbury points just past the level crossing and switch back onto the up line - a 170 proved those old points still work last Friday.
Several rumours are going round. One is that the cascaded 172’s from LO will be in service from September. If the LO 172 lease doesn’t get extended it’ll give WMR 3 months to train up half the Coventry drivers and the guards on the units. The logical thing to do is then put them to work on the Nuneaton and Leamington branches.
Then train up the rest of the depot on both routes and 172’s so the top link doesn’t become a boring repetition of Leamington/Nuneaton diagrams, with the occasional Northampton/X city job thrown in.
That second bit will take a lot longer than 3 months.