BIRMINGHAM SNOW HILL GALLERY 6
[Source: Terry Callaghan]
Redevelopment of the station entrance took place at the start of the century with the bus stop style canopy being removed and the area opened out. The result is viewwed across Colmore Row in 2006 with the entrance now being very unassuming.
Photo by Geoffrey Skelsey  Parts of the station undercroft are still visible, mainly under the overbridge at the north end of the station, seen here on 17 March 2013. Photo by Terry Callaghan 
The Great Charles Street entrance on 17 March 2013, allows passengers from the opposite side of the A4400 Queensway to enter the station without taking a circuitous route via the subway, Livery Street to the Colmore Row entrance.
Photo by Terry Callaghan  The station entrance viewed on 5 November 2016 from approximately the former hotel entrance. Photo by Terry Callaghan To see more pictures of Snow Hill click here
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The first Railtour to arrive at the rebuilt station was The Branch Line Society (BLS) Tame & Avon tour on 5 March 1988. The train comprised of a 3-Car Class 117 Pressed Steel Suburban DMU set T305 from Tyseley depot, 51410, 59520, 51368. Taking in not only the new Snow Hill but vaious other lines in the West Midlands and Black Country.
Looking south on 5 March 1988 at the new station building with A DMU occupying plaform 4, which would latterly, be given over to trams terminating on the former main line from Wolverhampton. In 2016 with the extension of hte tram network, to New Street, complete the paltform is being converted back to heavy rail use.
The entrance to Snow Hill seen in 1989 from Colmore Row located in roughly the same spot as the entrance created during the 1910 reconstruction.
The former GWR lines north of Snow Hill were reinstated as the Jewellery line in 1995. On the western side of the station a Class 150 unit awaits departure on a northbound service after the station was rebuilt and reopened. On the right can be seen the remains of the original station wall in Livery Street. This platform is roughly on the site of the old down side station buildings facing platform one.
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