2-691-366 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Railway stations in the early days were strangely primitive affairs. Here is a picture of Birmingham Station on what was then the London and Birmingham Railway. It provides an interesting contrast to the vast New Street Station at Birmingham of the present day', c1934. Illustration showing Birmingham station in the early days of train travel, c1830s-1840s. From The Romance of the Nation, Volume Two, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c1934]