LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Shed: lnwrcs602

LNWR Stephenson patent long boiler 2+2-2-0 No 189 seen standing in front of the now closed Curzon Shed circa 1859 which is out of sight and to the right of the photographer. The date is probably 1858 or early 1859, some time after the station closed to passengers and immediately before work began on reconstructing it as a goods station. Behind the engine on the left is the expanded two-span roof of the London & Birmingham Railway passenger station and in the right background is the 1851 roof built for the Gloucester & Derby bays. On the extreme right a weather vane can be seen and an inscription left over from passenger days. The photograph was taken just before No 189 was withdrawn in June 1859 after a relatively short working life having been built by Jones & Potts of Newton-le-Willows in September 1848. It had been originally ordered for the Chester & Holyhead Railway but when built was delivered to the Southern Division of the LNWR instead. Driver Bowker of Vauxhall Engine shed is on the footplate.

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