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Contact the photographer for details.";function clickIE4(){if(event.button==2){alert(message);return false;}}function clickNS4(e){if(document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){if(e.which==2||e.which==3){alert(message);return false;}}}if(document.layers){document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS4;}else if(document.all&&!document.getElementById){document.onmousedown=clickIE4;}document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")</script> <style>@media only screen and (max-width:800px){.mainimage{max-width:100%}}</style><link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"><script language="Javascript" src="/jquery-ui/jqui10/js/jquery-ui-1.10.0.custom.min.js.pagespeed.jm.4dkrtxMyIS.js"></script><div class="container"><p><center><img class="mainimage" src="/images/33000/33439.jpg"></center></p><p>Looking north west from Birmingham Snow Hill during heavy rain in March 2001. A Midland Metro tram is departing on the right.</p><p>Location: <a href="/locations/B/Birmingham_Snow_Hill">Birmingham Snow Hill</a></p><p>Original line: <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway">Great Western Railway</a></p><p>Photographer: <a href="/contributors/Ewan_Crawford">Ewan Crawford</a></p><p>Contact photographer: <a href="/pm/index.php?img=33439&whoto=Ewan Crawford" target="contact">Ewan Crawford</a></p><p><a href="/pm/index.php?img=33439&whoto=Ewan Crawford" target="contact">Contact editor</a></p><p>Date: 03/2001</p><p>Image number: 33439</p><br>Other photographs of Birmingham Snow Hill on RailScot<table style="width: 100%; display: block; overflow-x: scroll;"><tr><td><a title='Birmingham Snow Hill lives up to its name as London Midland Sprinter 150014 runs in from Stourbridge Junction to form the 0819 to Dorridge. 0n the right, behind the railings, lie the Metro tram tracks.' href='/img/27/167'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/27000/27167.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='A 47 breaks a banner on the reopening of Snow Hill in 1987. The station had closed in 1972 being demolished in 1977.' href='/img/57/423'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/57000/57423.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram no. 16 just arrived at Birmingham Snow Hill, at dusk on 18th March 2014. Trams no longer serve this station, having been diverted through the city centre, the first section of which opened to Bull Street in 2016 with a new street level replacement stop, at first called Snow Hill but soon renamed St. Chads.' href='/img/71/756'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71756.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Collett 2-6-2T no 8109 potters around in the shadows at Birmingham Snow Hill on 22 October 1964, some 8 months before withdrawal from nearby Tyseley shed. On the adjacent line Churchward 2-8-0 3808 is passing through the station with an up goods train see image .' href='/img/35/795'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/35000/35795.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Snow Hill, Birmingham looking north in 1991 with a suburban DMU in the platform. This had been the Great Western Railways main station in the city but was closed in 1972 and later demolished. The new station was opened in 1987, initially as a terminus. Later it was used northwards by West Midlands Metro trams and then also trains towards Stourbridge Junction. ' href='/img/79/122'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79122.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Ex-GWR 3808 takes an up goods train through Birmingham Snow Hill station in October 1964.' href='/img/34/443'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/34000/34443.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Birmingham Snow Hill looking south.' href='/img/7/276'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/7000/7276.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='The former Midland Metro tram platforms at Birmingham Snow Hill station, on 18th March 2014. These platforms were closed in 2016 when the first stage of the city extension to Bull Street was opened, which diverged north of Snow Hill and brought trams back to the streets of Britains second city for the first time since 1953.' href='/img/71/942'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71942.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='Midland Metro tram no. 05 arriving at the then end of the line in Birmingham Snow Hill station, on 18th March 2014. This was in use from the opening of the Metro in 1999 until the first stage of the extension into the city centre to a temporary terminus at Bull Street opened in 2016. The extension diverged north of the station and a replacement stop for Snow Hill was provided but this was soon renamed St. Chads.' href='/img/71/905'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71905.jpg'></a></td><td><a title='First light and fresh snow at Birmingham Snow Hill on 11 January and 150124 (and the 3-car unit to which it was coupled) have unloaded their commuters in front of the BT Tower before going forward on the Kidderminster line.' href='/img/27/253'><img style='padding: 2px;' width='90px' src='/__cache/thumbnails/27000/27253.jpg'></a></td></tr></table><br><br>  <div id="dialog" title="Enlarged image" style="display: none;"> <span id="dialogtext"></span> <br><a target="ebay" href="https://www.ebay.co.uk"><img align="right" src="/ebay/xeBay-logo-right-now-108x45.gif.pagespeed.ic.-1kRB_5ODm.png"></a> </div> <div id="ebayid" style="display: none; border-top: 1px dotted #CCC; padding-top: 25px; margin-top: 25px;"> <a target="ebay" href="https://www.ebay.co.uk"><img src="/ebay/xeBay-logo-right-now-108x45.gif.pagespeed.ic.-1kRB_5ODm.png"></a><br> eBay has some items listed which may be of interest. 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