Pub history

The London and North Western

The first New Street station was built during 1846–54 by the London and North Western Railway (known as both LNWR and L&NWR) company. An area of notorious slums was cleared to make way for the railway station. On officially opening (1 June 1854), it had the world’s largest arched single-span iron-and-glass roof (64m wide by 256m long). It was 14 years until the record was broken, in 1868, by London’s St Pancras station.