Birmingham New Street Station

LNWR Locomotives: lnwrbns_pg1937

LNWR 4-6-0 Claughton class No 2204 'Sir Herbert Walker KCB' is seen standing at Platform 4 whilst at the head of the noon arrival of the Pines Express from Liverpool. Pat Whitehouse states in his book Pre-Grouping in the West Midlands that after the opening of the West Suburban line and the Midland side of New Street station in 1885 it was standard practice that the train be brought into the Midland side of the station. He also adds that the train was normally headed by a George the Fifth or Prince of Wales class locomotive supplied by Edge Hill shed in Liverpool. The train has obviously travelled via the tunnel at the West end of New Street station and the Midland locomotive would need to couple up at the other end as the train would need to depart to the South via the West end tunnel for the West Suburban line.

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