Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1874

An illustrated view of the interior of the Grand Station viewed from the Wolverhampton end of Platform 3 with the Queens Hotel seen on the left. Whilst the artist has captured the majesty of the then largest single span roof in the world his perspective is a little out as evident by the height of the passenger footbridge. The steps from the footbridge are drawn incorrectly as they are shown to be dog-legged whereas whilst there was a half-landing the steps were straight. The dark circles to the left of and in front of the locomotive depict the turntables to be seen within the confines of the station although the artist has not depicted connecting rails. There are three roads depicted whilst in fact there were only two sets of tracks built between Platform 3 and Platform 2 in the middle. Queens Street is to the right on behind the columns eventually to become Queens Drive when the station was extended in the 1880s.

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