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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton LMS Route:
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Saltley Station: mrsalt426
The caption on the original read 'Coloured lithograph showing
part of the London & Birmingham Railway, with the city of Birmingham
visible in the background' whilst the title indicated that the view was "near
Saltley". Despite the railway in view not being the Midland Railway's
Birmingham to Derby line (it was another 17 years before it was built) it does
provide a view of the topography of the area that is very different to the one
seen in later photographs. The scale of railway building and the size of the
engineering feats can only be marvelled at when one considers they were built
with little more than a pick and shovel. John Fancote writes, 'The bridge
shown in the lithograph is Bridge No 370 on the Rugby to Birmingham Line at 110
miles 1236 yards and it appears that Bridge Road and Pretoria Road meet on the
bridge'.
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