LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Goods Station: lnwrcs2139

Second interior view of the top floor of the infirmary stable block at the back of Top Yard some 30 years after the last horse left. The need for further stable accommodation at Curzon Street meant that the LNWR built a two-storey infirmary block with ramps to allow horses access to the first floor. In addition, in 1874 a three-storey building with stables on the ground floor was erected. The two other floors were designated for the preparation and storage of feed. Richard Foster states that 'it was here that the provender for the large number of horses employed over the entire LNWR system was prepared, cut up and packed into sacks, and dispatched as required to every corner of the LNWR's empire'. By 1920 just before the LNWR was absorbed into the LMS, the LNWR were feeding 5,895 horses which was substantially up on the 3,800 being fed in 1895.

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