Birmingham New Street Station: Close up of New Street No 2 Signal Box which protected the 'Midland' portion of New Street station and the timber bracket signals controlling departures to Derby

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

Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1841a

Close up of New Street No 2 Signal Box which protected the 'Midland' portion of New Street station and the timber bracket signals controlling departures to Derby

Close up of image 'lnwrbns_str1841' showing New Street No 2 Signal Box which protected the 'Midland' portion of New Street station and the timber bracket signals controlling departures to Derby. The Signal Box stood at the end of the original Platform 5 (the LNWR named the entire island platform as Platform 5) to be redesignated in 1946 as Platforms 8 for the right hand platform face and Platform 9 for the left hand platform face. Immediately in front of the signal box are the timber buffer stops for a short siding used by pilot locomotives at the station during periods when the through lines were being occupied.