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PHOTO DESCRIPTION: PHOTO BIRMINGHAM CURZON STREET STATION (1969) WAS THE ORIGINAL NORTHERN TERMIN
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PHOTO BIRMINGHAM CURZON STREET STATION (1969) WAS THE ORIGINAL NORTHERN TERMINUS OF THE LONDON & BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. OPENED IN 1838 IT HAD A RELATIVELY SHORT LIFE AS A PASSENGER STATION CLOSING TO REGULAR TRAFFIC IN 1854 FOLLOWING THE OPENING OF NEW STREET STATION. IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY USED AS A GOODS STATION UNTIL 1966. IT IS THEREFORE ONE OF THE OLDEST RAILWAY STATION BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD & SO OF IMMENSE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. IRONICALLY THE BUILDING PROBABLY OWES ITS SURVIVAL TO ITS EARLY CLOSURE AS A PASSENGER STATION WHICH SAVED IT FROM THE ENLARGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD HAVE UNDOUBTEDLY OCCURRED HAD IT REMAINED IN PASSENGER USE. AT THE TIME OF THE PHOTO THE BUILDING'S FUTURE WAS IN DOUBT IN SPITE OF ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AFTER ALL NOT MANY YEARS PREVIOUSLY AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE EUSTON'S DORIC ARCH & GREAT HALL (ALSO BY HARDWICK) HAD BEEN DESTROYED. IN 1970 BRITISH RAIL PROPOSED DEMOLITION STATING THAT IT WAS ONLY USED BY ONE RAILWAYMAN 'TO LEAVE HIS SANDWICHES THERE WHILE HE DOES HIS WORK'. DEMOLITION WAS OPPOSED BY 7 PRESERVATION SOCIETIES & BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE & THE BUILDING SAVED. IT IS NOW PROTECTED BY A GRADE 1 LISTING. FOR MUCH OF THE TIME SINCE THEN THE BUILDING HAS LAIN EMPTY WITH ONLY OCCASIONAL USE FOR TEMPORARY ARTS EVENTS. VARIOUS PLANS FOR ITS FUTURE HAVE COME & GONE IT IS NOW LIKELY THAT IT WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE BIRMINGHAM STATION ON HIGH SPEED 2. ON THE BUILDING'S NORTH SIDE (TO THE LEFT) IS ANOTHER BUILDING WHICH HAS SINCE BEEN DEMOLISHED (C1980). THIS WAS THE STATION HOTEL OPENED IN 1840 BUT WHOSE LIFE AS A HOTEL WAS SHORT; IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY USED AS RAILWAY OFFICES. A NOTABLE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN THE HOTEL IN JANUARY 1847 WHICH LEAD TO THE FORMATION OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS WITH GEORGE STEPHENSON AS ITS FIRST PRESIDENT. IN 1947 A PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED ON THE MAIN BUILDING TO COMMEMORATE THE EVENT. MARTIN TESTERPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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REF NO MT1055
PHOTO SIZE SIZE 6 X 4 INCHES
CONDITION: SEE SCAN ABOVE
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