GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill: gwrbsh1257

A 1914 view of Snow Hill Station's hotel sited on the corner of Livery Street and Colmore Row. The photograph used on the Postcard was taken by Valentine of Birmingham. The tram is travelling up Livery Street and will then pass along Colmore Row in front of the station entrance. The tram belongs to Birmingham Corporation Tramways which after a number of years had by 1912 acquired the independent companies operating the network of tramways in Birmingham. Built to a gauge of 3ft 6ins, Birmingham' network was the largest narrow-gauge tramway in the UK and the fourth largest tramway network in the UK after London, Glasgow and Manchester. Its assets included a total of 843 trams (with a maximum of 825 in service at any one time), 20 depots, 45 main routes and a total route length of 80½ miles (129 kilometres).

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