Birmingham New Street Station: Looking Eastwards along Queens Drive towards the entrance to the portions of the station in 1952

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_str2937

Looking Eastwards along Queens Drive towards the entrance to the portions of the station in 1952. Formerly Great Queen Street prior to the erection of the Midland portion of the station in the early 1880s, the station approach via Queens Drive provided a third entrance to the station. Whereas the Queens Drive entrance being in the centre serviced both the LNWR and Midland Railway the other two were more focused on one railway. The Stephenson Place via the hotel entrance being best for the LNWR whilst the other being off Station Street best served the Midland Railway. The pedestrian footbridge which crossed both portions did however allow access to all parts of the station.