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: lnwrcs2146

Looking towards the far end of Top Yard from Curzon Street level crossing gates with the weighbridge in the left in 1966. On the right is the Mobil Oil storage shed which was erected on part of the site of the 1930s built paper warehouse after it was destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. The building at the very end of the yard was used by 'Producers' for ripening bananas. Behind this building is Grosvenor Street which together with Nova Scotia Street and Princes Row, Howe Street and Curzon Street formed the boundaries to Top Yard. Adjacent to the siding on the right are three powered capstans each with a coil of rope and, nearest the camera, one dumb capstan. When Top Yard was first built it required a significant amount of spoil to be removed to level the site to the same height as Curzon Street. The slope however continued across the passenger station to the locomotive house to an extent that its height was some 20 feet above the canal.

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