The work on digging up the concrete of the former parcels depot continues. It will interested to see if anything is buried under ground such as the hydraulic system that drove the capstans.
Looking at the Aris's Gazette report, this records the final completion of the line between Denbigh Hall and Rugby. The line to Birmingham ( it was not called Curzon Street station at first, at least in timetables) as stated was in April The first passenger service is recorded to have run on April 9th 1838 from the original station at Rugby, calling at Brandon, Coventry, Hampton and Birmingham. During November 1844 booking huts and platforms were erected at Dockers Lane, Marston Green and Stechford Gates, short trains having called at these spots from October 1844.