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Curzon Street Railway Station

My father was delivering from here on a railway horse and cart before the First World War. After service as postmaster for the Royal Tank Corps Depot at Bovington near Lulworth in Dorset, he found that his job had been given away to a married man and his only option was a lowly paid job making packing cases for Perry Pens in Lancaster Street. where he died on the job in 1952. He loved his job with the railway, but there seems to be very little left there today that would remind him of it if he was able to come back.

Maurice
 
barrie said:
Hi Geff. Small world eh'. There is a photo of an LMS carter in one of the "Old Birmingham" books, its my old dad. :)
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Hi Barrie, My father did 50 years with the LMS, started in 1898 finished in 1948. He worked the markets as a young man until they promoted him to a lorry. During the 14-18 war he drove a steam wagon carrying shells from Kynocks to the railway, he told me that he had a man to walk in front of the wagon with a red flag. His district with the lorry was Bordesley- Yardley-Marston Green delivering small items to shops and farms in and around that area. GEFF
barrie said:
My old dad used to be a carter for the railways, and at one time he stabled his horse in Curzon Street. He worked for the LMS.
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Curzon Street became a parcels concentration depot and this was the last phase, firstly under BR then the Post Office.
 
thanks jim...and thank god it has been saved...have been very worried about this building even though it is the oldest train terminus in the world..

lyn
 
Love the phrase in the caption "a peripatetic baked-potato venture" ! Oh for the days of a quieter and more leisurely pace. Nothing new there. Viv.
 
Curzon Street Station seen at sunset with the Birmingham Big Wheel - here for Ice Skate Birmingham (moved to Eastside this year from Centenary Square).



 
Took this from Birmingham Moor Street Station of Millennium Point as the Royal Visit happened this morning, but also got Curzon Street Station and the future HS2 station site in the shot!

 
Norton think's it's a dangerous website, but am able to continue to the page to open the PDF.

Norton is reporting it as a threat!
 
The internet archive is one of the biggest online depositories of books on the internet. I have never had any trouble with it, and if I did I would start worrying about sites such as the national archives
 
For some reason Norton Anti-Virus scanned it and found it to be unsafe. It even put a red X on the Norton Safe Web.

For instance this site has a green tick meaning it's safe (no issues).
 
The claim on the banners outside Curzon Street station buildings make this claim, but was it the first?
Curzon Street opened on April 9th 1838 and was the junction of two main lines, the London & Birmingham Railway and the Grand Junction Railway. Both the London & Birmingham Rly and GJR was built over time. The GJR reached Birmingham first with a station at Vauxhall opened in July 4th, 1837. This second line was extended to a station adjacent to the LBR station during January 1839.

Other passenger railways had opened earlier. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened September 15th, 1830 with passenger termini at Crown Street, Liverpool and Liverpool Road Manchester. Their railway was a main line between cities and had various branches to Bolton, Wigan and Warrington.

London Euston the terminus of the London & Birmingham was opened in 1837, but it was not until the completion of Kilsby Tunnel (June 24th, 1838) that the line between Birmingham and London was complete.

It is difficult to justify the claim, if the Liverpool & Manchester is considered a main line, but from January 1839 Curzon Street was at the heart of the main line that linked London with the North West.
 
It was the first London & Birmingham railway train to arrive on Monday 17th September 1838.

See this plaque at Curzon Street Station (it might be hidden now by the hoardings).



Says it was the first mainline terminus station.

 
The first was actually Vauxhall Station it opened in 1837 as a temporary terminus for the Grand Junction Railway from Warrington until Curzon Street opened later. it was then renamed Vauxhall & Duddeston. I believe it is now just called Duddeston Station.
 

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There is a book jointly authored by Paul Leslie Line and others called Wildfire Through Staffordshire (Armchair Time Travellers Railway Atlas) that covers the story of the Grand Junction railway, on the 4th of July 1837 that is quite informitive.

Link Here
 
I thought the claim to be the first main line rather odd when I read it sometime last year.
I have a reprint of the official guide to the Grand Junction Railway published in 1838. It describes Liverpool as 'a seaport in West Derby'. To day West Derby is a suburb of Liverpool
 
Heartland said:
The claim on the banners outside Curzon Street station buildings make this claim, but was it the first?
Curzon Street opened on April 9th 1838 and was the junction of two main lines, the London & Birmingham Railway and the Grand Junction Railway. Both the London & Birmingham Rly and GJR was built over time. The GJR reached Birmingham first with a station at Vauxhall opened in July 4th, 1837. This second line was extended to a station adjacent to the LBR station during January 1839.

Other passenger railways had opened earlier. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened September 15th, 1830 with passenger termini at Crown Street, Liverpool and Liverpool Road Manchester. Their railway was a main line between cities and had various branches to Bolton, Wigan and Warrington.

London Euston the terminus of the London & Birmingham was opened in 1837, but it was not until the completion of Kilsby Tunnel (June 24th, 1838) that the line between Birmingham and London was complete.

It is difficult to justify the claim, if the Liverpool & Manchester is considered a main line, but from January 1839 Curzon Street was at the heart of the main line that linked London with the North West.
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Aris’s Gazette 28th September 1838, the train arriving...

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Birmingham Big Wheel is back in Eastside City Park, so some new views of Ice Skate Birmingham with Curzon Street Station.

From the canal bridge on Great Barr Street.



From Curzon Street.

 
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