LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Goods Station: lnwrcs2133

An aerial view of motor tractor units parked on the site of the former paper warehouse located in the Top Yard. The paper warehouse had been destroyed in the blitz and after the war the site was cleared and levelled to provide parking space for the LMS' road vehicles. The majority of the tractor units seen in this photograph, taken just after the war from the diary opposite, are the Scammell three-wheel articulated tractor unit. Richard Foster writes, 'The Mechanical Horse was largely developed by the railways and the special couplings between the motor units and trailers were designed by railway employees. Vehicles of this type dominated much of the railway delivery and collection work in the first few years after the war'. Also allocated to Curzon Street were tractor units designed to haul very heavy loads (as seen in image 'lnwrcs2131') and these much larger motor units can be seen in the above photograph.

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