LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Station: lnwrcs1502

View of Hardwick's structure with on the right the main entrances to the cartage yard with the main goods shed behind circa 1913. This photograph was taken some sixty plus years after its closure to passenger traffic. The extension to Hardwick's structure, seen on the left and set back, was the hotel built to accommodate passengers. Its success led to the LNWR to build the Queens Hotel as part of New Street Station. The train shed at the rear of the structure was converted to goods traffic by the simple procedure of filling in between the two platforms resulting in a very wide area to accommodate goods traffic arriving or departing by road. On the left a heavily laden dray can be seen moving away from the photographer whilst in the distance, behind the boundary wall to Curzon Street, the roof of one of the sheds in the Top Yard can be seen. The level crossing providing access to the Top Yard would have been to the right behind the building. On the right are the main entrances to the cartage yard with the main shed seen behind. As one LNWR horse-drawn covered dray enters the yard on the left another can be seen leaving the yard. The two gas lamps are sited on top of two pillars that at one time had a pedestrian gated entrance between them but by now has been bricked up. A solid gate appears to be hung on the right-hand column and swung back to allow access whilst in front of both pillars small stone pillars can be seen protecting the pillars from errant road vehicles.

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