Curzon Street railway station facts for kids

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Curzon Street railway station is a former railroad station in Birmingham, United Kingdom. It opened in 1838 and became a goods yard in 1854.

Images for kids

  • Curzonplatforms

    1838 drawing of the rear of the station's platforms while in operation.

  • Birmingham & Bordesley RJD 7

    A 1910 Railway Clearing House map showing railways in the vicinity of Curzon Street (upper centre)

  • Curzon Street Station -Birmingham-UK

    The surviving entrance building

  • Proposed Curzon Street Station layout

    Proposed station layout

  • Roscoe L&BR(1839) p202 - Entrance to the London & Birmingham Railway, Birmingham

    An 1839 drawing of Curzon Street, showing the planned flanking arches, which were never built.

  • Curzon Street Railway station

    Print from a 19th century guide book showing the 1840 hotel extension to the north of the terminus building.

  • Grand Junction Railway Curzon Street Station

    Joseph Franklin's Curzon Street Station screen for GJR, now demolished.

  • Curzon Street Station rear

    Rear of station building, across former freight depot (now car park), with Masshouse block M behind.

  • Curzon Street Station plaque -Birmingham -UK

    The plaque to the right of the entrance commemorating the first train from London to Birmingham.


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