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: lnwrcs2158a

Close up of image 'lnwrcs2158' showing the holding pens at Birmingham Corporation's Banbury Street cattle market as seen in 1912. Cattle were not the only livestock handled by the LNWR via Curzon Street sheep were also handled. Richard Foster retells a story in the second volume of his series as follows. 'One drover, who had a particularly intelligent and reliable dog named Shep, got in the habit of lingering in the Drover's Arms when he had sheep to collect. He would dispatch the dog, with the consignment note tucked in the collar, to the station, where the yard men would release the sheep and the dog then returned with them, parking them in a huddle at the bottom of Bradford Street. He would then bark outside the pub to attract his master's attention, who, after finishing his pint, would emerge to take the beasts on the last section of their journey to the lairage. There the animals rested overnight before being slaughtered and dressed early the following morning'.

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