Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1868

View from the Midland Railway's Parcels Offices looking West towards New Street No 2 Signal Box with Platform 6 on the left. After the New Street extension was given over to the Midland Railway for their dedicated use in 1889, Platform 6 was generally used for most of the company's most important trains. The island platform on which No 2 signal box is sited was used mainly by local trains with down trains using the left hand face and up trains using the opposite side. The practice adopted by the LNWR of numbering the platform and not the face of the platform which was instigated with the original portion of New Street still continued with the extension. This can be seen above whereby the island platform has the number 5 displayed on both sides of the platform just beyond the ramp to the subway.

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