GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1138

Looking from Colmore Row down Snow Hill towards Great Charles Street in the distance with the station on the left hand side in 1915. The gradient of Snow Hill allowed the Great Western to provide extensive parcel facilities which was a lucrative stream of business revenue. Prior to the 1950s, the railways could still compete against road transport for goods and parcel traffic over long distances. Post-war, the development of the national road network and the sale of the vast number of ex-army lorries allowed a number of private companies to be established that could compete for traffic.

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