A choice of original plans and drawings detailing the 150-year history of Birmingham New Street were published for the primary time, as passengers await the hole of the 1st 1/2 the station’s new concourse in under a week’s time – the primary major change to New Street station in over 40 years. The station has remained largely unchanged because it was last redeveloped in 1967 and in additional recent years have been the focal point of much criticism as numbers of folk using the railway has increased, with greater than double the passengers using New Street today than it was designed for. The experience for passengers is poor, with the station being too dark, busy and overcrowded with inadequate access to platforms. This month, everything changes because the halfway point...
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