Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str426a

Close up of image 'lnwrbns_str426' showing the access to the spare carriage sidings and the horse & carriage landing on the East side of the station. The use of carriage turntables played a major part in the station's early methods of working the station and demonstrates that few through trains were planned. The facility provided to accommodate the loading and off-loading of horses and carriages provides an insight in to early train travel as only the very rich would require to travel and if they did they frequently took their own transport with them. These facilities and the spare carriage sidings were later replaced by the LNWR parcels office.

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