LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham-Soho-Perry Barr-Birmingha

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Winson Green Station: lnwrwg3411a

Close up of image 'lnwrwg3411' showing the passenger waiting room erected in timber on Winson Green station's island platform. A larger waiting room was erected in order to serve both routes and was equipped with two waiting rooms. The design reflected the common LNWR approach to station buildings. Richard Foster of the LNWR Society was convinced that the theory that the LNWR mass produced such structures was wrong. He believed that they followed a LNWR pattern but were built by local contractors which resulted in a design best described as a variation on a theme. It is believed that one was the general waiting room whilst the other was restricted for ladies only, a common facility from the opening of railways up to the outbreak of the First World War. The ladies would have a toilet accessed from within the waiting room whereas the gentlemen's toilet was typically located outside, in this instance being incorporated within the pier of the road bridge (see the door beneath the steps).

Photographer James S Doubleday courtesy of John Turner of 53A Models of Hull Collection.

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