Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str434a

Close up of image 'lnwrbns_str434' showing the Stour Valley bay lines with an unidentified ex-LMS 2P 4-4-0 locomotive being held by the signal after coming off a local passenger train at Platform 2A. To the left and out of sight were additional railway facilities including two lamp rooms, a footwarmer room and mess facilities. Whilst the lamp rooms remained to the rebuilding of the station, footwarmers had their origins in early Victorian days when no carriage heating was provided. On the left of the road leading to Platform 3 there appears to be a fogman's or Permanent Way hut and a telephone box used by the fogman to call the signal box. Immediately to their left can be seen a disposal pit between the rails probably more used by enginemen to oil inside cylindered locomotives than to remove ash and clinker from the firebox.

gives a better view of the "Stour Valley Bay" on the left including an ex-LMS 4-4-0 2P. C1960s

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