Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1859

Looking from the offices in Queens Hotel from above the Stour Valley bay across to to the entrance for passengers to the right of the building on Platform 3. Standing in Stour Valley Bay 'B' is a close-coupled set of local passenger stock which are identified by Richard Foster as being 28 ft brake-second No 12 and a First-Second composite No 717 of which only ten were built. The airier feel to the station prior to the addition of the strengthening of the roof can be seen when compared to image 'lnwrbns_str1857'. Philip Millard of the LNWR Society writes 'For the record the 28 ft 0 in four wheelers in photo 1859 are Birmingham District Set 33. The four-wheelers were displaced in 1907-8 and replaced by new bogie stock'.

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