Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: British Railways Standard Class 7 4-6-2 Britannia class No 70031 'Byron' is blowing off steam at the head of the 12 45pm from Manchester London Road

LMS Routes

London North Western Railway:

Rugby to Wolverhampton
Rugby to Leamington
Rugby to Market Harborough
Nuneaton to Leamington
Coventry Loop Line
Leamington to Weedon
Trent Valley Line
Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Birmingham New Street to Harborne
Birmingham-Soho-
Perry Barr-Birmingham

Midland Railway:

Nuneaton to Birmingham New Street
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Evesham to Birmingham
Hampton in Arden to Whitacre
Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Rugby to Leicester
Water Orton to Walsall
Halesowen to Northfield

Stratford Midland Junction Railway

The Shakespeare Route

BR Period Locomotives: lnwrbns_br1509

British Railways Standard Class 7 4-6-2 Britannia class No 70031 'Byron' is blowing off steam at the head of the 12 45pm from Manchester London Road station on 20th April 1955. On the left standing at Platform 4 is an ex-LMS 2-6-4T with what is thought to be a local stopping service to Four Oaks. Built by Crewe works in November 1952 No 70031 was to remain in service for exactly fifteen years being withdrawn on November 1967 from Kingmoor shed in Carlisle to be scrapped in March 1968 by J McWilliam & Sons of Shettleston.