Birmingham New Street Station - BR Period Locomotives: British Railways Class 08 0-6-0 D3840 is seen shunting a pair of Vans in the former LNWR parcels siding on 18th February 1961

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_br1830

British Railways built 'Black 5' 4-6-0 No 44685 stands at the East end of Platform 3 with a New Street to Euston express passenger service

British Railways Class 08 0-6-0 D 3840 is seen shunting a pair of Vans in the former LNWR parcels siding on 18th February 1961. The Class 08 design was based on the LMS 12033 series (later TOPS Class 11) design and which was built at Crewe, Darlington, Derby and Doncaster between 1953 and 1962 totalling 996 locomotives in all making it the most numerous of all British Railway locomotive classes. There were also 26 of the near-identical but higher-geared Class 09, and 171 similar locomotives fitted with different engines and transmissions (some of which became Class 10), which together brought the total number of outwardly-similar machines to 1193.