Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str417

View from the West end of the extension along Platform 4 towards Derby with Platform 5 and New Street No 4 Signal Box on the right on 12th October 1903. This photograph was taken some twenty minutes later than image 'lnwrbns_str409' and after the train had departed Platform 4, its rear coach just disappearing around the bend of the station. The Board of Trade required a report on the extension when the works were approaching completion in order to inspect signalling and interlocking prior to granting permission to open the extension to traffic. Colonel Rich visited the station on 3rd February 1885 and reported 'The new station is controlled, or rather worked, from five cabins'. In the report he noted that 'No 4 signal box had 72 levers of which 9 are spare'. Colonel Rich for some unknown reason omitted to mention New Street No 6 signal box which stood at the far end of Platform 1, under Navigation Street bridge, and containing 12 working levers and 6 spare levers.

back