Freight services run to Bedworth Murco Oil Terminal and Prologis Park Industrial Estate.

On 14 December 2011, the UK Government announced an £18.8 million project to upgrade the line, which included new stations at the Ricoh Arena and Bermuda Park (opened January 2016), lengthening of the platforms at Bedworth, and increasing the service frequency from hourly to half-hourly.

[citation needed] In July 2016 it was announced that a prototype three coach Class 230 unit, would be trialled on the line for an initial period of 12 months.

[6] After the prototype unit caught fire in December 2016, it was announced in January 2017 that the planned trial had been cancelled.

[8] On 26 January 1857, 23 of the 28 arches of the Spon End Viaduct collapsed, due to poor quality construction.

[8] The line originally had intermediate stations at Coundon Road, Foleshill, Longford and Exhall, Hawkesbury Lane, Bedworth and Chilvers Coton.

All of the other intermediate stations were closed on 18 January 1965 (along with those on the Coventry to Leamington Line) when passenger services were withdrawn as a consequence of The Reshaping of British Railways report.

It had two goods stations at Bell Green and Gosford Green, as well as a number of sidings serving local industries,[9] but never had any scheduled passenger service, although passenger trains occasionally used the line as a diversionary route during engineering works.

[2] New plans will also see the number of carriages increased from 1 to 3 and the service upgraded to half hourly, a new platform built at Coventry station and also future extensions of the line to Kenilworth and Leamington Spa.

Saturdays (which will coincide with games at the Coventry Building Society Arena) will see three trains per hour in each direction.