Birmingham New Street Station: Another view of the entrance from Station Street showing posters advertising tickets to Aintree, Edinburgh and Bolton seen on 18th March 1954

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

Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1767

Another view of the entrance from Station Street showing posters advertising tickets to Aintree, Edinburgh and Bolton seen on 18th March 1954. British Railways obviously structured their excursion fares to reflect the perceived wealth of their passengers as the cost of travelling to Aintree on 27th March for the Grand National was 19 shillings and sixpence (97½p). However the fare to Bolton for an Aston Villa away football match on 20th March, which was within a mile or two the same distance, was advertised at 11 shillings and sixpence (57½p). The third poster from the right advertises fares to both Glasgow and Edinburgh at 62 shillings (£3.10) and 64 shillings (£3.20) respectively.