With the site of our container placements being around, on and attatched to the old station I've decided that I should look into the site.
History
The site is currently not used as a train station. It's rarely used other than some art exibitions throughout the year. There are curr.as found that is was used originally as farmland, this kept the same until they started selling off parts of the land to the English Monarchy and it then became a deer hunting area. This was slowly taken back into farmland and then an area for development for structures.
The station was built and opened in 1838 and cost a total of £28 000. Being the first direct link from Birmingham to London they stylized it after Euston Square station it connects to;design by Hardwick. You can se from the images below that they took the ideas of the towering columns and the arch at the top of the building, they changed it so that the triangular shape was instead was a rectangular shape.
History
The site is currently not used as a train station. It's rarely used other than some art exibitions throughout the year. There are curr.as found that is was used originally as farmland, this kept the same until they started selling off parts of the land to the English Monarchy and it then became a deer hunting area. This was slowly taken back into farmland and then an area for development for structures.
The station was built and opened in 1838 and cost a total of £28 000. Being the first direct link from Birmingham to London they stylized it after Euston Square station it connects to;design by Hardwick. You can se from the images below that they took the ideas of the towering columns and the arch at the top of the building, they changed it so that the triangular shape was instead was a rectangular shape.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Curzon_Street_Station_-Birmingham-UK.jpg
http://curzonsitehistory.weebly.com/
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/24/article-1215583-068FFD8D000005DC-990_634x393.jpg
http://curzonsitehistory.weebly.com/
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/09/24/article-1215583-068FFD8D000005DC-990_634x393.jpg