GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1133

Looking along Platform 5 from the steps to the over bridge in the direction of Wolverhampton showing the major clear up operation on 10th April 1941 following the air raid. The repairs only addressed tidying up the station with the major work being left until after the end of the Second World War. According to Derek Harrison in his book Salute to Snow Hill, 'In 1945 the Great Western Railway announced plans for a complete station repair programme including the bomb-damaged roof on the Snow Hill side of the former Great Western Hotel, which was virtually renewed.'

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