LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Station: lnwrcs2132

View of the rear of Hardwick's building on the left and the 1840 hotel extension seen from Curzon Street. The buildings were used to provide offices for staff handling the paperwork associated with the goods traffic being processed by Curzon Street Goods Station. Not all traffic handled by the depot originated or terminated in Birmingham. A fair proportion of general merchandise traffic was actually destined for other stations in the Birmingham area. These items had to be sorted and reloaded into other wagons for forwarding to their destinations. Richard Foster describes three such instances in the second volume of his excellent series of books on Birmingham New Street station - Expansion and Improvement 1860 to 1923. All are for small items, consigned to Chester Road station on the Sutton Coldfield branch. All have had to be transferred or transhipped at Curzon Street before they could complete their journey and each bears the legend 'Transferred at Curzon Street Station, Birmingham. The first was a bag of seeds from Camden Goods, London conveyed in July 1889 at a cost of 1 shilling (s) and 5 pence (d). The second was for six items from Soho Station, Birmingham consigned in December 1889 at a cost of 1s 3d. Whilst the last of the three was for a box of pots from Brettel Lane near Stourbridge Junction on the GWR at a cost of 7d.

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