Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str416

Looking East towards Coventry along from the West end of Platform One with a pair of LNWR 2-4-2T tanks standing in the platform early 1900s. The ramp on the left led to the subway that ran the width of the station at the West end of New Street to facilitate the transfer of mail continued into the Post Office sorting offices which lay between Hill Street and Pinfold Street. Reg Instone of the LNWR Society writes, 'the platform was renumbered No 3 in 1946 and the signals on the left are for the platform line and the through line' (on which the carriage on the right is standing - Ed). Paul Howarth also of the LNWR society writes, 'I think is a Bore six-wheel Luggage 3rd on the right. Recognisable by the narrow vertical panel either side of the Luggage box. Park designs only had those panels either side of the luggage doors next to a guard's ogee lookout when they were part of a Guard/Luggage combo. Probably a P104 (1895 Diagram Book). To confirm Reg Instone's observation it will be 32ft X 7ft 9in X 7ft 4in'.

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