A full timetable is set to resume at Kenilworth Railway Station in the new year according to West Midlands Railway.

The service was cancelled in early 2021 and has only resumed in part since.

Commuters had been told last week not to expect a full timetable until mid 2022, but the operator has today confirmed that a full timetable will return for the Leamington to Nuneaton line from 29 January 2022.

West Midlands Railway's customer experience director, Jonny Wiseman, said; "We are fully committed to the Leamington to Nuneaton service and have been working hard to catch up on lost training due to the pandemic. Based on our current rate of progress, I am delighted that we will be able to return to the full timetable from the end of January.

"There is still more to be done. To complete the training to fill all the remaining positions at our Leamington depot will take several more months. I am sorry for the disruption and inconvenience this has caused our passengers."

WMR has been holding regular meetings with MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright and Cllr Izzi Seccombe, leader of Warwickshire County Council, to discuss the future of the station.

Due to a successful recruitment and training effort, more drivers are now available to be deployed on the Leamington - Nuneaton line.

Jeremy Wright said: "It has taken longer than any of us would have liked, but I welcome the fact that we now have a date for a full resumption of services from Kenilworth Station.

"On behalf of regular users of the station, who have put up with unreliable trains and a variable replacement bus service, and all those who want to see the station succeed, the leader of the county council and I have been applying considerable pressure to West Midlands Trains in what have been sometimes robust conversations.

"I am pleased to see this progress and look forward to seeing the reliability of the service improve."

However at the Kenilworth Community Forum last week WMR head of stakeholder and community Fay Easton said no offers had been made on the empty retail unit in the station building.