Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1295d

Close up of the East end of Queens Drive and the junction of Worcester Street and Station Street with the Midland Railway's parcel offices at the corner of Station Street and Queens Drive. Parcel services were offered by all railways and they used both express and local passenger services to deliver parcels to the care of the nearest station for onward delivery by road or collection depending on the service purchased. Richard Foster writes that a feature of the 1883 timetable was the adoption of even-interval departures for some of the heavier loaded local services, an aspect introduced in 1881.

The Harborne branch had an hourly service with most leaving at 15 minutes past the hour and the last service departing at 11 15pm. Similarly the Wolverhampton stopping service had a majority of services departing on the hour. Not all such services terminated at a local station. Whilst Walsall was served by a timetable that basically provided an hourly service, most of these trains served places further afield such as Derby, Lichfield, Burton and Rugeley. However services on the Sutton branch and local services to Coventry had no obvious pattern and were in the latter's case patchy with long gaps between services.

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