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London North Western
Railway:
 Midland
Railway:
 Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1857a
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Close up of image 'lnwrbns_str1857' showing the Western face
of New Street No 3 signal cabin and some of its 17 levers controlling the
points and signals to the Western half of the station. The rods connecting the
levers to the signals and points are clearly visible running down the side of
the footbridge whilst fixed to the bottom beam of the footbridge to their right
is a signal controlling access from one of the centre roads to the Eastern
section of platform 2. The platform numbering adopted by the LNWR from the
beginning referred to the platform as a total entity therefore Platform 1 which
two bays each with two platform faces plus the through platform were all
denoted as Platform 1. Platform 2, the island platform had two through
platforms, one on each side and they too were just denoted as platform 2. This
confusing and illogical numbering system remained in existing for over ninety
years before it was changed by British Railways in 1948. The new system was
sequential, by numbering the platforms No 1 to 11 starting at in the South
Staffordshire bay as No 1 and finishing at platform 11 next to the fish sidings
near Station Street with the Stour Valley bay denoted as '1A'.
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