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London North Western
Railway:
 Midland
Railway:
 Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1865a
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Close up of image 'lnwrbns_str1865' showing the passenger
footbridge showing the departure indicator board suspended over head and in
between the steps to Platform One. Richard Foster states that the indicator
board was divided into two sections with the left hand side showing the
platforms for trains leaving from the East end of the platforms and on the
right, trains leaving from the West end of the platforms. The left hand section
records in descending order; Platform 1 for London and the South; Platform 1
for Leamington; Platform 5 for Sutton Coldfield (and intermediate stations);
Platform 5 for Walsall and South Staffordshire; Platform 1 for Burton and
Derby; Platform 4 for Moseley and Redditch and finally, Platform 1 for Bristol
and Gloucester. The right hand section records in descending order; Platform 3
for the North; Platform 1 for Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Station; Platform
1 for Dudley and Dudley Port; Platform 1 for Harborne; Platform 1 for
Stourbridge and Kidderminster whilst the remaining two sections are blank. The
need for the indicator boards and clocks found on the platform is clearly
evident from the above list as it must have been very confusing to passengers
with so many routes served by the same platform number.
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