Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str422

Looking West from under Navigation Street bridge towards the smoke filled tunnel that commenced at Suffolk Street with New Street No 5 Signal Cabin to the right. Although its only a little over eighteen months since the signal gantry was painted (as seen in image 'lnwrbns_str399') it is now much blackened with the smoke and soot from some of the 370 trains that arrive and depart from New Street each day in 1954 carrying some 2 million passengers per year. Mike Hitches wrote in article in British Railways Illustrated Volume 2 No 5 that eight trains could use the station at once and that the station master had a staff of some 600 people.

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