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Moor Street Station

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Yes that is true. The LNWR stable block in Curzon Street was listed, I recall, but that did not prevent the building of Millenium Point and heritage seems to have little value at the present.
For example, I do wonder what is the reason for the move of Walsall Leather Museum from Littleton Street.
 
As to Moor Street what makes this an interesting railway survivor is the concrete support. The bricks supported the more substantial overhead structures.

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The build was about 1913 when the goods shed upper and A and B sheds (lower) were in the process of construction.

The concrete was reinforced, but earlier in railway history the use of mass concrete was to be found locally on the London & Birmingham Railway. The choice of the engineering team of the Birmingham Committee was to be noted. The recent HS 2 archeology found that the base of the round house turntable was concrete.
 
In this view the view point was from a car park that gave an 1980's overhead perspective
On this occasion the Station was at it could be seen before closure and the making of a new pair of platforms beside the Snow Hill line and before that was reopened

Also in this view is Masshouse Circus

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An AC electric locomotive has made a rare appearance there and at the head of the train was 4930

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Is it not a bit confusing to say a new line is between Park St and Meriden st, as it is a new track beside the already-constructed track
 
Mor Street, July 1909.
(The Engineer)

“THE new station which has been constructed by the Great Western Railway Company at Moor-street as part of its great scheme of improvements in Birmingham was opened as a terminus for passenger and parcel traffic on the 1st inst.

Twenty-one motor trains and twelve ordinary trains will run into and depart from the station daily except on Sundays, the service being designed for the convenience of passengers for places south of Birmingham. The motor service on the new North Warwickshire
line will terminate at Moor-street on ordinary days, but on S indays these trains will run into Snow Hill as at present. It is not intended that the opening of the new station shall reduce the services to and from Snow Hill. The station has not yet been completed, the waiting-rooms and booking-office at present constructed being of a temporary character. They will be replaced by masonry buildings. The terminus will be lighted throughout by electricity, and will be similar to the stations at Acock's Green and Tyseley. Ultimately there will be four platforms, each about
600ft. long.”
 
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