LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Good Station: lnwrcs2118

View of the island platform previously used for excursion traffic and now used for the transportation of fish on 2nd February 1932. The main lines to New Street were at a higher level behind the wall on the left in the external view with the main goods shed to the right. The widening of the lines into New Street station in 1896 resulted in the island platforms being reduced in length but this work did not affect the length of the third platform seen on the right. The Mitchells & Butlers Bonded Store signs on the gable ends of the train sheds are misleading insofar that the bonded stores (see image 'lnwrcs1499') were actually in the cellars of the building on the right. Mitchells & Butlers have obviously paid the LNWR, then the LMS, to advertise to the trains which would pass on their way to New Street station on top of the viaduct, part of which can be seen on the left. Richard Foster in one of his books on Birmingham New Street - The Story of a Great Station including Curzon Street states that whilst fish was the main traffic for the former excursion station, meat and other goods deemed unsuitable for moving through the main shed was also handled as was traffic at peak periods. For an internal view of this shed see image 'lnwrcs2104'.

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