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Lost Birmingham in 3D

The Curzon Street roundhouse, on today’s streets

The London & Birmingham Railway’s engine house of 1837, sixteen-sided round a turntable, is the earliest known railway roundhouse. It was demolished around 1860 and found again by HS2’s archaeologists.

A 3D model of the 1837 Curzon Street roundhouse, a sixteen-sided brick engine shed, placed beside the surviving Curzon Street station building
The roundhouse — outline from the HS2 excavation (checked against the 1855 plan); 16 sides and a domed roof by 1843 from the excavation report (height estimated)Landmarks standing todayCurzon Street station’s entrance building (1838) — survives, Grade IBuildings today (OpenStreetMap)
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