EPW061180 ENGLAND (1939). Lawley Street Goods Station, Callowfields Recreation Ground and the Wrights Ropes Ltd Universe Works and environs, Bordesley, 1939

Sportsman Public House.

The large Lawley Street goods depot built by the Midland Railway. Now it is a Freightliner terminal for container traffic.

Locomotives awaiting turn of duty

Loco pulling goods train into Curzon Street

Loco pulling goods train into Curzon Street

Line to London is crossing over the line to Derby here.

This link line led from the Camp HIll avoiding line into New Street station. Here the signals are on the wrong side of the tracks because of the sharp curve and so enable the driver to see them more effectively.

LMS goods offices building (ex MR)

Loco shunting Curzon Street yard

Remains of the GWR viaduct never used for access to Curzon St. Parts remain 2013

Grand Union Canal

Callowfields Recreation Ground

The original Birmingham Railway Station was here. Birmingham Curzon Street railway station (formerly Birmingham station) was a railway station in Birmingham, England, used by scheduled passenger trains between 1838 and 1854 when it was the terminus for both the London and Birmingham Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, with lines to London and to Manchester and Liverpool respectively. It was then used for excursions until 1893 and goods traffic until 1966 when it closed. More recently, the surviving Grade I listed entrance building has been used for occasional art events. In 2010, a new Curzon Street station, partly on the site of the historical station, was proposed as the Birmingham terminus for High Speed 2. Acknowledgements to Wikipedia.

Garrison Street