New Street Station (226) |
Locomotives seen at New
Street station (295) |
BIRMINGHAM 2-HOUR TRAINS by Philip A. Millard
A total of nine sets designated Euston - Wolverhampton Sets
1-A 9 were placed in service in October 1906. Each consisted of four carriages,
57ft 0in by 9ft 0in with cove-roof profile. Similar vehicles were turned out
around the same time for Euston - Manchester, Euston - Liverpool and Euston -
Holyhead sets. They were of course lit by electricity on Stones double
battery system, and were fitted with steam heating. Generous compartment widths
were provided, 7ft 7in in the firsts and 6ft 6in in the inferior classes, both
some 6 inches more than in LNWR arc-roof stock. In order, the trains were made
up (from the north end, with the corridor located on the west side of the
train):
BTK D310: 3 thirds, guard.
TK D264: 7 thirds. Several of
these were later altered to Tea Cars (D47).
CK D134: 2 firsts, 5 seconds.
There were only nine vehicles built to this diagram which was found only in the
Euston - Wolverhampton sets. After 1912 the seconds became thirds.
BFK D126:
4 firsts, guard. D126 had two slight variants: the first ten were built with
single doors to the guard's compartment, the second ten (including all those in
the Wolverhampton sets) had double doors.
Around 1923 these D126 carriages
were all altered to brake-composites to D210A.
So five - or more likely six - sets were required to work
the service, with nine provided. That 2/3 ratio was typical for the LNWR. The
train sets probably remained in their original formations until around
1916.
New Street Station (226) |
Locomotives seen at New
Street station (295) |