LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Good Station: lnwrcs1503a

Close up of image 'lnwrcs1503' showing Curzon Street No 1 signal cabin and a LNWR train standing on Vauxhall viaduct. Erected in front of the signal cabin is the Yard Master's office along with a brick coal store and ash place measuring internally ten feet by nine feet. To the left of the signal cabin is a tank house to provide water for the water columns in the yard and in front of this stricture, a wagon examiners hut. The single storey Yard Master's office is housed in a building that was once a two-storey high structure and which had had the roof lifted to allow for the complete removal of the first floor in order to then refix the roof on the remaining ground floor structure. This work had been necessary in order to allow the signal cabin to have an unobstructed view of the whole of the yard. Opened in November 1892, No 1 signal cabin had initially been equipped with an 80 lever frame (later expanded to 84) because in conjunction with No 2 signal cabin (equipped with a 44, later 45, lever frame) all the points including those entering and leaving the yard were operated from both signal cabins.

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