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Snow Hill Station

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.
 

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Biscayne said:
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.
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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:-
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Local auctioneers advert and behind what looks like a newspaper headline board for either the Daily Mail or Daily Express

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

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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.
 
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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.
 
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
 
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