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	Birmingham New Street Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Street station was constructed as a joint station by the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway between 1846 and 1854 to replace several earlier unconnected rail termini, the most notable being Curzon Street.
		Birmingham New Street is a major railway station located in the centre of the city of Birmingham, England.
		New Street is Birmingham's main railway station, and is a major hub of the British railway system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_Station

	Birmingham New Street Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Street station was constructed as a joint station by the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway between 1846 and 1854 to replace several earlier unconnected rail termini, the most notable being Curzon Street.
		Birmingham New Street is a major railway station located in the centre of the city of Birmingham, England.
		New Street is Birmingham's main railway station, and is a major hub of the British railway system.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_station (552 words)

	Birmingham Snow Hill station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was never intended to be the main station but political gaming between the railway companies prevented the railway reaching its original intended end at Birmingham Curzon Street.
		Moor Street, at the southern end of Snow Hill tunnel was relocated from its former terminus location, which then closed, to become a through station adjacent to the tunnel mouth.
		Birmingham Snow Hill station is a railway station located in the centre of Birmingham, England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Snow_Hill_station (831 words)

	Birmingham’s Railways
		In the early 1960s,British Rail made an application to demolish the old Curzon Street Terminus, but Birmingham City Council and others stepped in to prevent this, thus preserving this important reminder of those pioneering days.
		After New Street Station opened in 1854, Curzon Street ceased to carry passengers, apart from local bank holiday and summer excursions, and never handled any regular passenger traffic.
		The station was opened in 1852, but hardly matched the grandeur of its New Street neighbour: it was little more than a large wooden shed.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway4.htm (831 words)

	Birmingham’s Railways
		London and Birmingham Railway was aiming at a terminus in Curzon Street.
		Those at Curzon Street were 45 feet high, and stood in pairs on huge rectangular plinths, themselves some 5 feet high and weighing over 18 tons each.
		As if to salute the enterprise, but more probably to impress the customers, magnificent triumphal entrances to the line were constructed at Euston and Curzon Street.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (831 words)

	Birmingham’s Railways
		London and Birmingham Railway was aiming at a terminus in Curzon Street.
		Those at Curzon Street were 45 feet high, and stood in pairs on huge rectangular plinths, themselves some 5 feet high and weighing over 18 tons each.
		Railway had also arrived in Curzon Street, abandoning its previous terminus in Camp Hill.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (667 words)

	The Railways in the West Midlands
		New Street Station was detrimental to the passenger services at Curzon Street and consequently it became a freight terminal and prospered as such until the first world war.
		The London and Birmingham Railway company and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway were followed by the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway making a total of four railway companies now operating into central Birmingham.
		It has direct links to the NEC and several inter city stations within the city of Birmingham are still used.
	www.birminghamuk.com /railways.htm (667 words)

	The Railways in the West Midlands
		New Street Station was detrimental to the passenger services at Curzon Street and consequently it became a freight terminal and prospered as such until the first world war.
		It has direct links to the NEC and several inter city stations within the city of Birmingham are still used.
		This was a much smaller station than New Street and further away from the city centre.
	www.birminghamuk.com /railways.htm (667 words)

	Birmingham Cross-City Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The long term aspiration is for dedicated tunnels through central Birmingham: this would either take the form of new bored tunnels (favoured by the SRA) or a re-opening of Birmingham Curzon Street Station to allow two of the existing four tunnels to be used for local trains only (formerly favoured by Central Trains).
		More ambitious plans include the re-opening of a short spur south of Longbridge to Rubery and Frankley and the re-introduction of local trains on the Camp Hill Line (effectively a loop between Birmingham New Street and King's Norton).
		Extra stations have been proposed for Mere Green (between Four Oaks and Butler's Lane), Raddlebarn Road (between Bournville and Selly Oak, to serve Selly Oak Hospital), and Wychall (between Northfield and King's Norton).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Cross-City_Line (667 words)

	Victorian Railways
		The line started at Birmingham's Curzon Street Station and finished at Euston Station in London.
		Passenger trains started at the Crown Street Station in Liverpool and terminated at Water Street in Manchester.
		The London and Birmingham Railway Company took Stephenson's advice and in 1833 Robert Stephenson was appointed chief engineer.
	www.ourwardfamily.com /victorian_railways.htm (667 words)

	Encyclopedia: Birmingham New Street station
		New Street station was constructed as a joint station by the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway between 1846 and 1854 to replace several earlier unconnected rail termini, the most notable being Curzon Street.
		New Street is Birmingham's main railway station, and is a major hub of the British railway system.
		Birmingham New Street is a major railway station located in the centre of the city of Birmingham, England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Birmingham-New-Street-station (667 words)

	Birmingham New Street railway station - InformationBlast
		New Street station was constructed as a joint station by the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway between 1846 and 1854 to replace several earlier unconnected rail termini, the most notable being Curzon Street.
		Birmingham New Street station is a major railway station located in the centre of the city of Birmingham, England.
		The station was completely re-built by the then-nationalised British Railways in the mid 1960s, when the West Coast Main Line was modernsied and electrified.
	informationblast.com /Birmingham_New_Street_station.html (667 words)

	Birmingham New Street Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Street station was constructed as a joint station by the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway between 1846 and 1854 to replace several earlier unconnected rail termini, the most notable being Curzon Street.
		Birmingham New Street is a major railway station located in the centre of the city of Birmingham, England.
		The station was completely re-built by the nationalised British Railways in the mid 1960s, when the West Coast Main Line was modernised and electrified.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_Station (552 words)

	Birmingham’s Railways
		London and Birmingham Railway was aiming at a terminus in Curzon Street.
		Although the station at Birmingham was of lesser importance, the company wanted an imposing frontage there too, and Hardwick applied himself to producing an outstanding design.
		As if to salute the enterprise, but more probably to impress the customers, magnificent triumphal entrances to the line were constructed at Euston and Curzon Street.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (552 words)

	BirminghamÂ’s Railways
		Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway opened its station in Lawley Street, close to the Curzon Street termini, and a year earlier
		Railway had also arrived in Curzon Street, abandoning its previous terminus in Camp Hill.
		Those at Curzon Street were 45 feet high, and stood in pairs on huge rectangular plinths, themselves some 5 feet high and weighing over 18 tons each.
	www.brummagem.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (552 words)

	Birmingham�s Railways
		Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway opened its station in Lawley Street, close to the Curzon Street termini, and a year earlier
		As if to salute the enterprise, but more probably to impress the customers, magnificent triumphal entrances to the line were constructed at Euston and Curzon Street.
		Railway had also arrived in Curzon Street, abandoning its previous terminus in Camp Hill.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (552 words)

	Birmingham’s Railways
		Although the station at Birmingham was of lesser importance, the company wanted an imposing frontage there too, and Hardwick applied himself to producing an outstanding design.
		Railway had also arrived in Curzon Street, abandoning its previous terminus in Camp Hill.
		Those at Curzon Street were 45 feet high, and stood in pairs on huge rectangular plinths, themselves some 5 feet high and weighing over 18 tons each.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway1.htm (552 words)

	NeBirmingham’s Railways
		Their main Oxford to Birmingham line was to terminate at Great Charles Street, with a station at Snow Hill, and there was to be a branch from Bordesley to make a junction with the
		BandOJR were persuaded to make the Curzon Street link its main line - and were so keen to get their track into Birmingham that they agreed to this – but they didn’t read the fine print.
		LNWR on arches This again made a link with their line into Curzon Street impossible.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/railway3.htm (552 words)

	Duddeston Station
		When the permanent terminus opened at Curzon Street in 1839, Vauxhall became a goods-only station until it was rebuilt and opened in 1869 under the LNWR, who had absorbed the GJR in 1846.
		Originally opened as Vauxhall Station in 1837, Duddeston Station has a far from insignificant place in the history of Birmingham's railways.
		This station was once a considerable railway concern and yet today it is reduced to a single platform, overgrown ruin.
	www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk /Stations/duddeston.php (351 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		Running from Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, to Euston Station, London, the 112 mile long line took 20,000 men nearly five years to build, at a cost of £5.5 million.
		The entrance to Euston Station was marked by an imposing Doric arch designed by Phillip Hardwick, which cost £35,000 to build.
		A similar arch, also designed by Hardwick, was built at the entrance to the Birmingham terminus.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?image=10282446&wwwflag=2&imagepos=1 (351 words)

	Crewe station
		The line, which was the first long-distance railway in the world, ran from Curzon Street Station in Birmingham to Dallam in Warrington, Cheshire, where it made an end-on junction with the Warrington and Newton Railway, a branch of the L& M. Conceived as a through route, the GJR was not interested in serving towns en-route.
		As soon as the station opened it was seen to be at a useful point to begin a branch line to the county town of Chester.
		The purpose of this railway was to link the four largest cities of England by joining the existing Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the projected London and Birmingham railway.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/crewe_station (351 words)

	Birmingham - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		The redbrick Victoria Law Courts in Corporation Street, built in 1887, and Curzon Street Station are also Grade I listed.
		The Electric Cinema on Station street is the oldest working Cinema in the UK and was once reputedly a haunt of George Bernard Shaw.
		The first local brewery on a large scale appears to have been the Birmingham Old Brewery that was erected in Moseley Street in 1782, by 1890 Birmingham was home to 2,178 public houses which were often judged by the quality of their "stingo" (beer).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /birmingham.htm (351 words)

	British Railway Journal Volume 1
		There was an intermediate station at Coleshill (renamed Maxstoke by LMS from 9 July 1923) For a time the line provided through services off the London and Birmingham Railway to Derby and into Birmingham Curzon Street, but this traffic had changed to other, more direct routes before the end of the 1840s.
		Carpenter, R.S. The Hampton Branch of the Midland Railway.
		Midland Railway official photographs: cites F.S. Williams' The Midland Railway who noted that the Nottingham – Kirby-in-Ashfield branch was "one of the most important of the Midland Railway".
	www.steamindex.com /brj/brj1.htm (351 words)

	Crewe station
		The line, which was the first long-distance railway in the world, ran from Curzon Street Station in Birmingham to Dallam in Warrington, Cheshire, where it made an end-on junction with the Warrington and Newton Railway, a branch of the L& M. Conceived as a through route, the GJR was not interested in serving towns en-route.
		The purpose of this railway was to link the four largest cities of England by joining the existing Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the projected London and Birmingham railway.
		As soon as the station opened it was seen to be at a useful point to begin a branch line to the county town of Chester.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/crewe_station (351 words)

	Links to Locations from the LNWR Society
		Railways became increasingly important in Birmingham as in other large towns and cities, from 1837, when the first line was laid to the town, and a station was built at Curzon Street just outside the town.
		it is one of the few old station buildings still standing in the West Midlands, though it is no longer used.
		An article by Colin Hickman on railways in and around Birmingham.
	www.lnwrs.org.uk /Links/links108.php (561 words)

	British Railway Journal Volume 1
		There was an intermediate station at Coleshill (renamed Maxstoke by LMS from 9 July 1923) For a time the line provided through services off the London and Birmingham Railway to Derby and into Birmingham Curzon Street, but this traffic had changed to other, more direct routes before the end of the 1840s.
		Midland Railway official photographs: cites F.S. Williams' The Midland Railway who noted that the Nottingham – Kirby-in-Ashfield branch was "one of the most important of the Midland Railway".
		The original station opened in June 1837 but there are no contemporary photographs of the original structure.
	www.steamindex.com /brj/brj1.htm (561 words)

	Birmingham & Gloucester Railway
		The original Camp Hill terminus station closed when a link was made into the Curzon Street station of the London and Birmingham Railway from 17th August 1841 (and to Birmingham New Street from 1854).
		All of these stations except for Five Ways were in Worcestershire parishes that were annexed by Birmingham in 1911 and since 1974 have been part of the West Midlands County.
		The BandGR merged with the Bristol and Gloucester Railway on 14th January 1845 to form the Birmingham and Bristol Railway and on 31st August 1846 the whole become a part of the Midland Railway.
	www.miac.org.uk /gloucesterline.htm (561 words)

	British Railway Journal Volume 1
		There was an intermediate station at Coleshill (renamed Maxstoke by LMS from 9 July 1923) For a time the line provided through services off the London and Birmingham Railway to Derby and into Birmingham Curzon Street, but this traffic had changed to other, more direct routes before the end of the 1840s.
		The original station opened in June 1837 but there are no contemporary photographs of the original structure.
		Carpenter, R.S. The Hampton Branch of the Midland Railway.
	www.steamindex.com /brj/brj1.htm (7068 words)

	British Railway Journal Volume 1
		There was an intermediate station at Coleshill (renamed Maxstoke by LMS from 9 July 1923) For a time the line provided through services off the London and Birmingham Railway to Derby and into Birmingham Curzon Street, but this traffic had changed to other, more direct routes before the end of the 1840s.
		The original station opened in June 1837 but there are no contemporary photographs of the original structure.
		Carpenter, R.S. The Hampton Branch of the Midland Railway.
	www.steamindex.com /brj/brj1.htm (7068 words)

	British Railway Journal Volume 1
		There was an intermediate station at Coleshill (renamed Maxstoke by LMS from 9 July 1923) For a time the line provided through services off the London and Birmingham Railway to Derby and into Birmingham Curzon Street, but this traffic had changed to other, more direct routes before the end of the 1840s.
		The original station opened in June 1837 but there are no contemporary photographs of the original structure.
		Illus.: 3589 at Stafford Road; 3588 in black livery at Stafford Road on 7 September 1946; 3589 at Witney on 11 October 1947; 3585 and 3583 on Oxford shed in 1947.
	www.steamindex.com /brj/brj1.htm (7068 words)

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