Snow Hill Station

[AnnS]

As far as i can recall the standard arrangement on the GWR and later the western division of BR,
was to place the pilot engine inside the train engine.

Although seemingly not in this case, still a great picture though...

 

[Biscayne]

As promised elsewhere, a few pictures taken about 1975 in the tunnel from Snow Hill station. The tracks had been removed and the track bed used as a car park. There were no barriers so it was easy to walk into the tunnel. It seemed huge, with side 'rooms' everywhere which I guess were part of the sidings. P1 is an assemblage of stuff found in some of these 'rooms'. I contemplated snagging the 'Platform 5' but wasn't sure if the car park was being watched from anywhere. P2 is looking back into the tunnel from the other end.

 

[Mark Tooze]

As promised elsewhere, a few pictures taken about 1975 in the tunnel from Snow Hill station. The tracks had been removed and the track bed used as a car park. There were no barriers so it was easy to walk into the tunnel. It seemed huge, with side 'rooms' everywhere which I guess were part of the sidings. P1 is an assemblage of stuff found in some of these 'rooms'. I contemplated snagging the 'Platform 5' but wasn't sure if the car park was being watched from anywhere. P2 is looking back into the tunnel from the other end.

Brilliant photos - thank you for posting them - do you have any more? By the time I got there a few years later (78/79) the station buildings had been demolished and the tunnels had been blocked up with rubble, but it was still possible to find things if you looked hard enough:-

Local auctioneers advert and behind what looks like a newspaper headline board for either the Daily Mail or Daily Express


Base of what may have been an old platform bench on the right (not sure???)



I think these may be pulleys for routing the cables to the roof mounted semaphore signals - again not sure???

I posted my full set of photos from the tunnels on an earlier thread.

 

[mw0njm.]

he site of the last public hanging in Birmingham in 1806 at the archway under Birmingham’s Snow Hill railway station. A small plaque high up on a wall at the bottom of Great Charles Street is missed by most passers-by, but is the only reminder of one of the city’s most macabre chapters. Because it was near this very spot, on August 22, 1806, that the last – and only – public street execution in Birmingham took place.

 

[A Sparks]

Interesting - I didn't know about that!

 

[Pedrocut]

It is said that 40,000 came to watch the execution.

 

[Penns]

Anybody know anything of CYRIL HALL from the Signal and Telegraph Office at Snow Hill, he also ran a fruit and veg shop opposite the College Arms on the Stratford Road