LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Vauxhall & Duddeston: lnwrvd1485

Looking towards Aston in 1955 with the main station building housing the booking office and suspended above the centre two lines damaged by fire. The original 1869 station was of a design similar to that found elsewhere on the LNWR in the county at Stetchford on the London to Birmingham Route and Shilton and Brinklow on the Trent Valley line although this structure is built in brick whilst the others were of timber.

The presence of sleepers on the platform on the left and flower bed on the right would seem to indicate that that only two of the four platforms were in use by 1955. The left hand platform was an island and remains the surving platform today as can be seen at Andy Doherty's web sitewww.railaroundbirmingham.com.

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