LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Station: lnwrcs2143

View of the L & B station with the arrival platform on the left and the departure platform on the right. Whilst the drawing's perspective is very poor, the height of the carriages compared to the locomotive being the most obvious, it does provide a record of practices that were common at the birth of railways. The most obvious difference to later practice was the uncoupling of the tender from the locomotive. In the view above the locomotive, which is standing at the departure platform, has been uncoupled from the tender which remains coupled to the train of carriages. Early locomotives used the more expensive coke as fuel rather than coal as it provided the higher levels of calorific heat without too much smoke. Later developments using fire bricks in the firebox meant that coal could be used with the 'locomotive consuming the smoke'. On the arrival platform a train is standing with the last wagon seen being a flat truck used to carry horse drawn road vehicles.

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