Supporters attending Coventry City matches at the Ricoh Arena have been advised not to use the Coventry Arena train station when it opens.
As suspected, London Midland are to continue with their single carriage trains which will run once an hour to Nuneaton and from Nuneaton and as a result, the station will be shut for an hour after the final whistle with London Midland citing health and safety fears.
A spokesman for London Midland told the Coventry Telegraph's Simon Gilbert: “The issue is that the service is one single diesel carriage that has 75 seats. We have been clear about that from the start of the project.
“At the moment there aren’t any more trains available in the country to run that service.
“The main message is that, as soon as the station opens, everybody going to Coventry City games simply won’t be able to get the train.
“Our advice is to continue to use the existing bus services to get to and from games.
“We have been told by the Safety Advisory Group that the station will have to be closed for an hour after matches or events.
“The big challenge we have at the arena is that we could potentially have 32,000 people attending.
"Technically, we could take up to 10 per cent of that crowd. But we have been told we have to close the station after matches.
“People could potentially be waiting one hour 59 minutes between services at the end of a match.
“In the future, when the line is electrified, all sorts of thing could be possible - but we’re not there yet.”
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