Birmingham Snow Hill — Attraction in Birmingham

Birmingham Snow Hill, also known as Snow Hill station, is a railway station in Birmingham City Centre. It is one of the three main city-centre stations in Birmingham, along with Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street.

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Snow Hill was once the main station of the Great Western Railway in Birmingham and, at its height, it rivalled New Street station with competitive services to destinations including London Paddington, Wolverhampton Low Level, Birkenhead Woodside, Wales and South West England. The station has been rebuilt several times since the first station at Snow Hill, a temporary wooden structure, was opened in 1852; it was rebuilt as a permanent station in 1871 and then rebuilt again on a much grander scale during 1906–1912. The electrification of the main line from London to New Street in the 1960s saw New Street favoured over Snow Hill, most of whose services were withdrawn in the late 1960s. This led to the station's eventual closure in 1972 and its demolition five years later. After fifteen years of closure, a new Snow Hill station, the present incarnation, was built; it reopened in 1987. Today, most of the trains using Snow Hill are local services on the Snow Hill Lines, operated by West Midlands Railway, serving Worcester Shrub Hill, Kidderminster, Stourbridge Junction, Stratford-upon-Avon and Solihull. The only long-distance service using Snow Hill is to and from London Marylebone, operated by Chiltern Railways via the Chiltern Main Line. The present Snow Hill station has three platforms for National Rail trains. When it was originally reopened in 1987, it had four, but one was later converted in 1999 for use as a terminus for West Midlands Metro trams on the line from Wolverhampton. This tram terminus closed in October 2015, in order for the extension of the West Midlands Metro through Birmingham city centre to be connected; this included a dedicated embankment for trams alongside the station and included a new through...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Doe-wgs and Cats, and Budgies and hamsters ! !! And folk's who still ain't too sure what they is ! ?? BIRMINGHAM SNOW HILL STATION ! Birmingham Snow Hill Railway station is thee ideal place for catching trains. You won't need to bring an enormous net, no that would be friggin' stupid. If you stand on the platform, or sit if you're tired, or those new shoes are rubbing, trains stop so you can get on. Result. If you happen to miss one please don't chase it because trains are much faster runners than us ! Which is totally incredible, considering trains don't wear trainers or have a motorbike ! Sometimes train's are cancelled or delayed due to lots of different reasons. A shortage of train crew, engineering works, an incident on the line, or the train and driver went to registration, Double English and Computers, and then decided to wag it ( bunk off, play hooky, play truwent ) and go down the park. This can very frustrating for all concerned. Especially if West Midlands Railway's find out and send the train and it's driver home with a letter telling their Mum's and Dad what they've been up to ! 😵🤯🤕 Remember diesel locomotives can get fed up too which to my mind, is completely understandable. Would you like loads and lots of loads of ladies, and blokes sitting inside you ( some with can's of pop or a Cornish pasty ) and travel miles and miles. No, I thought not. Oh, you wouldn't mind, someone at the back reckons ! ? Well next time it's a Ban koli day have a go at it. Train's have a very hard job...

Station is fine, staff are a rude and unhelpful. Ticket would not download because of the poor service in the station and train was due to leave shortly. Even after showing them my ticket on trainline, bank statement of my ticket purchased and email from trainline co forming my ticket they still wouldn’t let me through telling me to go back outside to get signal and download ticket even when the train was about to leave. Two rude workers one male and one female on shift at 1800 on the 18th Sept, stood there chatting and barely even paying attention when trying to get through. What is the point in having workers manning the ticket gates if they don’t pay attention to anyone that needs help. Silly train station workers, go on strikes not working when they don’t work anyway! Rude staff, never received worse customer...