Birmingham New Street Station - LMS Period Locomotives: An unidentified LMS 4-6-0 Class 5 locomotive is seen blowing off steam at the East end of Platform 1 whilst at the head of a Birmingham to Euston express service

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

LMS Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_lms1947

An unidentified LMS 4-6-0 Class 5 locomotive is seen blowing off steam at the East end of Platform 1 whilst at the head of a Birmingham to Euston express service. Standing on the middle road is an unidentified LMS 2-6-2T locomotive designed by Henry Fowler. The Class 5, better known to enthusiasts as a 'Black 5' to differentiate them from Stanier's Jubilee 5XP class painted in LMS Crimson Lake, were built between 1934 and 1951 with a total of 842 being built. The class survived to the last day of steam on British Railways in August 1968 and a total of eighteen have been preserved.