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 and Shed: lnwrcs2145

Plan of the approach and layout of Curzon Street station's train shed and its Engine House as seen in 1838. In this view the Engine House has three roads entering and leaving the building. Richard Foster describes Curzon Street's Locomotive House thus, 'the building erected at the Birmingham Station is of multilateral form, the diameter being 124 feet and its centre being 418 feet from the last tier of turntables without the passenger shed and 88 feet from the Canal. Towards the passenger station is a building projecting from the engine house 60 feet in depth and 63 feet in front; in the middle of this front is is an entrance for the locomotives in communication with the up line; and on eitherside arethe offices for this department, including a waiting room for the enginemen, store room, office, turnery, wood-room, and a coke heating oven.

The Grand Junction Railway station has yet to be built whilst access to the London & Birmingham station was via a spur off the approach tracks which continued on to the goods depot. Richard Foster speculates that the reason for this was that it was a relic of the intention of the line joining end to end with the Grand Junction's line original route from the north. The booking office and waiting room are located on the departure platform which also has access for road vehicles to be loaded on to carriages at the end of the courtyard. The goods depot appears to be a simple open air yard with sidings laid at right angles. The station master's house can be seen on the right immediately adjacent to the six turntables.

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