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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry
Barr
Curzon Street Good Station: lnwrcs2118
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View of the island platform previously used for excursion
traffic and now used for the transportation of fish on 2nd February 1932. The
main lines to New Street were at a higher level behind the wall on the left in
the external view with the main goods shed to the right. The widening of the
lines into New Street station in 1896 resulted in the island platforms being
reduced in length but this work did not affect the length of the third platform
seen on the right. The Mitchells & Butlers Bonded Store signs on the gable
ends of the train sheds are misleading insofar that the bonded stores (see
image 'lnwrcs1499') were actually in the cellars
of the building on the right. Mitchells & Butlers have obviously paid the
LNWR, then the LMS, to advertise to the trains which would pass on their way to
New Street station on top of the viaduct, part of which can be seen on the
left. Richard Foster in one of his books on Birmingham New Street - The
Story of a Great Station including Curzon Street states that whilst fish
was the main traffic for the former excursion station, meat and other goods
deemed unsuitable for moving through the main shed was also handled as was
traffic at peak periods. For an internal view of this shed see image 'lnwrcs2104'.
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