Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: Ex-Midland Railway 2F 0-6-0 No 3168 is seen traversing the down middle road between Platforms 1 and 2 with an ex-Midland 20 ton brake van coupled to its tender

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_br1795

Ex-Midland Railway 2F 0-6-0 No 3168 is seen traversing the down middle road between Platforms 1 and 2 with an ex-Midland 20 ton brake van coupled to its tender on 31st May 1949. Built in 1887 at Derby works No 3168 would be retired within a few weeks of the photograph being withdrawn from Aston shed in June 1949 to be scrapped at Derby works soon afterwards. The brake van was the final type of standard Midland Railway brake van to be built and this vehicle was built at Derby in 1923, the year the LMS was established. This 23ft 3in long vehicle was originally vacuum fitted and had a 12 foot wheel base.