Birmingham New St Station

Here we see the magnificence of the railways in the form of the great stations. Birmingham had a number of stations but the two larger were New St seen here and of course the GWR Snow Hill station. At New St the railway cut the city centre in two and the city fathers decreed that it should not be a complete cut. So New St station had a very wide overbridge which linked the two halves of the city as well as providing access to the many platforms. New St was a mix of London North Western Railway and Midland Railway, each ocupying its own side of the station, hence Midland side and LNWR side. Of course from 1924 they both became the London Midland and Scotish Railway

The magnificent steelwork supporting the great glass roofs must have seemed like miraculous creations to the people of the mid 18th century.