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: lnwrcs2153

Another view of the former GJR arrival platform being used as the fruit wharf on 17th February 1938. On the right is the fixed position hydraulically powered crane seen in earlier views and to its right are a set of floor mounted scales for weighing the produce. On the left the top of an open timber wagon can be seen. Prior to the 1930s, merchandise was primarily carried in open wagons protected by tarpaulins because eighty per cent of the fleets of goods wagons operated by pre-grouping railway companies were open wagons. Besides being cheaper to build, open wagons offered a greater degree of flexibility as well as allowing heavy items to be directly craned in to or out of the wagon.

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