LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth

Tamworth High Level Station: lnwr_tam1256a.htm

Close up of image 'lnwr_tam1256' showing one of the timber framed and clad lift shafts built to aid the transfer of mail between the two sets of platforms. This, and its counterpart on the down platform, were constructed to the south of the MR station and accessed the MR's down platform. Parcel and luggage requiring to be transferred from either of the LNWR platforms to the MR's up platform, utilised the same route and then continued via the porters barrow crossing at the end of the MR's platforms. Reg Kimber writes "The lift at Tamworth was primarily used for mail at night. Tamworth gets a mention in the classic film 'Night Mail' as mail on the West Coast main line was transferred on to Derby-Bristol and Bristol-Derby trains at Tamworth."

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