GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh76a

Close up showing the Ladies Waiting Room located within one of Snow Hill station's ornate buildings. On the left is what appears to be a vending machine, selling either cigarettes or chocolates as these were suitable products for dispensing by machine. On the right iis one of British Automatc Company's metal nameplate stamping machines. During the 1950s these machines printed out a given number letters on a strip of aluminium for one old penny (1d). Many a new apprentice on their first day on the job from one of Birmingham's many engineering businesses were sent to the station to print out their name on a strip for fixing on their tool boxes etc. See below for a photograph of a preserved model at Edinburgh Museum reproduced with acknowledgement to Douglas Bryce.

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