BIRMINGHAM SNOW HILL GALLERY 3
[Source: Terry Callaghan]
Looking south through the main trainshed on 3 March 1972 the station would close the following day.
Photo by Keith Holt from Alistair Holt's KDH Archive Flickr photostream  Looking out from the tunnel mouth in June 1972 at the south end of the station with the wrecked Birmingham South signal box in the foreground. Photo by Ian Baker 
The main entrance to platforms 1 to 6 from the booking hall during June 1972.
Photo by Ian Baker  Platforms 3 & 4 standing idle 12 months after the passenger service ended, debris litters the platform. Photo by Geoffrey Skelsey  Viewed northwards from platform 7 towards Wolverhampton the scale of the wreck is clear. There are some 200 cars on the site, probably carrying less than the load of a single train. Photo by Geoffrey Skelsey 
Looking south form platform 8 with cars now parked on the former through lines. The hoardings on the right hand side were to guide passengers from the Langley Green and Wolverhampton trains out onto Livery Street and possibly shield their eyes from the wreck that the station had become. Photo by Geoffrey Skelsey 
The view south in 1973 from the north end of the staiton gone are the running-in-boards and nature is starting to consume the trackbed. Photo by Ian Baker To see more pictures of Snow Hill click here
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The view looking north from the centre roads in 1972 with the vast majority of the glazing missing from the bay canopies. This would be the final months of operation of, what had become, the largest un-staffed passenger station in the world.
The penultimate day of services to and from the station is captured here with two of Tyseleys Class 121 DMU's in the two remaining platforms at Snow Hill, 3 March 1972. The guard, PayTrain ticket machine over shoulder, is about to remove the tail lamp from the 16.57 arrival from Wolverhampton, whilst the 16.58 service to Langley Green is preparing to depart.
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