2013

SP0687 : Plaque to commemorate the opening of Snow Hill Station, Birmingham, in 1852

taken 11 years ago, near to Birmingham, England

Plaque to commemorate the opening of Snow Hill Station, Birmingham, in 1852
Plaque to commemorate the opening of Snow Hill Station, Birmingham, in 1852
Plaques and signs face the traveller at the top of the stairs and escalators SP0687 : Commemorative plaques and a sign, Snow Hill Station, Birmingham. This one reads:
In commemoration of the
150th Anniversary of the opening of
Birmingham Snow Hill Station
Tuesday 1st October 2002
Unveiled by
George Windsor, Station Master, Snow Hill 1960-1963
&
Rob Donald, Director General, Centro

Birmingham's first major railway station was at Curzon Street, the terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway, opened in 1837-8. Plans for a more central station for through trains were inaugurated in 1846. A New Street site was preferred to the only alternative at Snow Hill. New Street opened in 1854 and was an immediate success. The London & North Western Railway Company contrived to prevent Brunel's Great Western Railway from operating into New Street (or Great Central Station as it was first known). The GWR had to make do with Snow Hill Station, originally opened by the Birmingham & Oxford Junction Railway, 1st October 1852.

Source: Richard Foster. Birmingham New Street, the story of a great station. Didcot, Wild Swan Publications, 1990. ISBN 0 906867 78 9

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Robin Stott   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 8 September, 2013   (more nearby)
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Monday, 13 October, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 069 872 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:28.9608N 1:53.9896W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SP 069 872
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