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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Lichfield
Sutton Coldfield Station: lnwrsc2610
Painting showing the original Royal Hotel which was opened
in May 1865 some three years after the railway. Harry Jack writes, 'The
painting of the Royal Hotel at Sutton Coldfield has interested me for a long
time. It seems there are two versions, and I have seen another version
reproduced with a much cruder locomotive in the foreground. Sutton Library told
me the painting was in the Cattell Collection, and had been passed to the
Museum of Science & Industry in Birmingham. Four years later I went there
and they showed me a different version of the painting, the one on your website
(the one above). They didn't know anything about the other version - which,
apart from the black & white reproduction, I've never seen. Both look to me
like the architect's work, showing how his new Royal Hotel would look when
built, with foreground detail included to show how near it would be to the
station.'
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