LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry
Barr
Curzon Street: lnwrcs1502
This photograph was taken circa 1913 some sixty plus years
after its closure to passenger traffic. The extension to Hardwick's structure,
seen on the left and set back, was the hotel built to accommodate passengers.
Its success led to the LNWR to build the Queens Hotel as part of New Street
Station. The train shed at the rear of the structure was converted to goods
traffic by the simple procedure of infilling between the two platforms
resulting in a wide area to accommodate goods traffic arriving or departing by
road.
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