Brackhampton Snow Hill

My first Job in B'ham (1953/ 1955) involved walking past that door every day down Livery Street. Ashamed to say that I never seemed to have time to venture into the station, or take pictures... It was always going to be there ...Wasn't it?? .... I don't think I've been back there since!

Do I recall an access to the station within the underpass at the lowest part of Livery Street?

 

Impressed by the 3D CAD drawings!

I never knew the station in service, but my researches (rather grand way of saying I've read everyone elses books) suggest three entrances, one from Colmore Row and the top of Livery street into the main ticket office. the second midway down Livery Street through this doorway which led into a subway under the platforms shared with the parcels traffic and the third under Great Charles St bridge, the white arcaded remains of which can still be seen.

 

I've often wondered what it must have looked like walking down those side streets of Colmore Row with Snow Hill at the end rising like a brick glass and cast iron cliff face at the end of the street.

Yes, it was the Great Charles St. bridge (more like a tunnel, it seemed!) that I half-remembered. Don't recall ever seeing anyone entering there. Always seemed a gloomy, unwelcoming area.

It still is a gloomy and unwelcoming area, especially now that the new bridge span for the Midland Metro has been built on the east side of the railway bridge. The atmosphere isn't helped by the plaque on the railway bridge abutment that tells you that you are standing close to where the last public execution in Birmingham took place.