Birmingham Snow Hill railway station

Before the station, there was Oppenheim's Glassworks there. This was then demolished to build the station.^[8] It was called Birmingham Station when it was opened. The name was changed to Great Charles Street station. Then Livery Street Station. It was renamed Snow Hill in 1858, and the Great Western Hotel was added in 1863.^[9] It wasn't the only station however, as Curzon Street railway station was just to the south. The station was a temporary building, it was rebuilt in 1871 to a permanent building.^[10] It was then rebuilt again from 1906-1912 to battle Birmingham New Street. A tunnel was then built to Birmingham Moor Street to relieve traffic^[3]

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  View of Snow Hill from above in 1948
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  The station looking towards the tunnel in 1967
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  A train at snow hill at one of the final days of the station.

Long distance trains stopped using Snow Hill in 1967. The Snow Hill tunnel stopped being used in 1968, with the last train passing through on the 2nd March.^[11] Trains now originally going to Snow Hill would now only go to Moor Street. All that was left was trains going to Wolverhampton (6 times a day) and to Langley Green (4 times a day). Parts of the station were removed over time, which was everything but 1 platform. All trains stopped going to Snow Hill in March 1972, as well as the trains themselves.^[3] It was then used as a car park.^[4] It was also used a set of the BBC TV show Gangsters.^[12] The station building was then closed and demolished in 1977 when they decided it was too dangerous.^[13]

The station was built again in the 1980s and the first part was opened on the 5th October 1987.^[6] The tunnel was also re-opened on the same day. This meant that some services that originally ended at Moor Street could now end at Snow Hill. The second phase was the opening the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line on the 24th September 1995. This means that services from Moor Street can go beyond Snow Hill for the first time since 1968. In 1999, the line that went to Wolverhampton as a part of the old station, opened as a tram line.^[7] A new entrance on Livery Street opened in March 2011.^[14] The tram platform closed in 2015 and a new one opened as a part of new tram lines being opened. As of 2026, this is getting rebuilt into a 4th platform.^[15]