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: lnwrcs2147

Notice board erected on the former hotel extension on the corner of Canal Street and Curzon Street in the 1950s. Logistics is often thought as a 21st century development combining the development of road transport and telecommunications. In fact the railways were the first organisations to provide an industrial scale logistical infrastructure that covered the whole of the country. The sign above shows that the LMS, as did the LNWR previously, both transported goods as well as providing warehouses to store goods. The provision of bonded warehouses for alcohol and tobacco meant that the manufacturer of these goods did not need to pay the Customs & Excise the relevant taxes until they were delivered to the customer. This was a very important facility to businesses who needed to manage their cash flow as carefully as today's businesses.

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