LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield

LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Soho and Perry Barr

Curzon Street Good Station: lnwrcs2104

Interior view of the former excursion station's island platform now being used for fish on 2nd February 1932. At the far end beyond the buffer stops is a screen beyond which were the old passenger waiting rooms and booking office. After closure to excursion traffic, the rooms were used as a mess room for cartage and yard staff. Richard Foster records that little was done to adapt the old station for its new job which must mean that the island platform on the left was this narrow even when handling many hundreds of passengers each time the station was used. Older Curzon Street staff could even remember the station seats, platform lamps and waiting rooms being largely intact in the 1930s. Most nights, one or two fish trains arrived between 2 am and 4 am, being unloaded by a night gang. They would load the fish onto carts which were frequently the first road transport to leave the yard each day. Hull was the principal port supplying fish although Grimsby, Fleetwood, Yarmouth and Aberdeen also sent fish. When in season mackerel was delivered from Ireland via Holyhead. In later years the pattern of traffic changed with Fleetwood being the prime supplier of fish. The fish dock sidings at the end of the excursion line (No 1 siding) could cater for up to 50 wagons.

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