Birmingham New Street Station: View of the passenger footbridge in the original portion of New Street with building work still evident on Platform 3 next to Queens Drive

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_str1865

View of the passenger footbridge in the original portion of New Street with building work still evident on Platform 3 next to Queens Drive in September 1885. The footbridge is now a little over ten years old and the lattice steelwork is covered with advertisements on either side of the bridge. The railways were very aware of the potential earning power of advertisements and advertising boards covering any free standing space was a common sight from at least the 1860s. On the structure to the left can be seen the letter 'B' indicating that the East side of Platform 1 was designated 'B' whilst the West side was designated 'A'.