An official plan of the southern end of the platforms of the
third Snow Hill Station. This was the approximate area covered by the main
glazed roof and shows the locations of the various platform facilities that
were available during the interwar period (1918 to 1939). In 1913, the Third
Class General Waiting Room on the Up platform became the location of the
Birmingham Telephone Exchange containing a combination multiple switchboard. A
new low level Booking Office adjacent to the Livery Street entrance to the Main
Subway allowed the Up platform Booking Office to become a Store Room, while the
Cloak Room on the Down platform became a Parcels Room. The facilities have been
also listed below, with the original 1912 usage identified in brackets where
this subsequently changed. In 1929, the numbers of platforms 11 and 12 were
also reversed.
Up side: |
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Down Side: |
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Telegraph Office |
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Parcels Room (was Cloak Room) |
Telephone Exchange (was 3rd Class General Waiting
Room) |
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Lifts down to Main Subway |
Ladies Waiting Room |
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General Waiting Room |
Cloak Room |
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Stairs down to Main Subway |
Lifts down to Main Subway |
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Telegraph Office |
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Stairs down to Gentlemen's Lavatory |
Stairs down to Main Subway |
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Refreshment Rooms with Kitchen below |
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Platform Booking Office |
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Refreshment Rooms with Kitchen below |
Stores (was Platform Booking Office) |
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Stairs down to Gentlemen's Lavatory |
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First Class General Waiting Room |
Ladies Lavatory with Book Stall outside |
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First Class Ladies Waiting Room |
First Class Ladies Waiting Room |
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Ladies Lavatory with Book Stall outside |
General Waiting Room (was First Class only) |
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Ladies Waiting Room |
Station Master's Office |
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Stairs up to Main Booking
Hall, with Inspector's and Ticket Collector's Offices under |
Adjacent to each side of the Snow Hill tunnel entrance are
short sidings with access to a platform. The two platforms were constructed for
loading and unloading live horses, fish, fruit, milk or other perishable
traffic, travelling in passenger rated, vacuum braked Brown vans,
which could be attached to fast passenger trains. The siding on the down side
served what became called the Milk Platform.