LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
LMS Route: Birmingham - Soho - Perry Barr - Birmingham
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Harborne

Monument Lane Shed: lnwrmlsh81b

The suited and bowler hatted gentleman would seem to indicate that Bill Potter, the photographer, had a pass to take this photograph. The water tank, built to a standard LNWR design, has two roads each at a different level. Whilst the 1938 track plan shown in Chris Hawkins & George Reeve's "LMS Engine Sheds Volume One" shows a separate stand-alone structure of 75 ton capacity this would have been the LMS built structure.

Whilst not certain, the author believes the two roads under the water tank were at two levels so that coal could be shovelled from coal wagons into the locomotives bunkers or tenders. To the left and in front of the tank was the 60 foot turntable (at the end of the straight track) which replaced an earlier 42 foot version in the 1920s. The 1934 built coaling and ash plants were to the right just out of view and were built on the site of the "old shed" erected in 1858.

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