GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh565

Another pre-World War One view of Snow Hill station's light and airy concourse with both First and Third Class ticket offices on the left. Whereas once there were four classes of traveller on the railways of Britain by the end of the nineteenth century most offered just two classes, First and Third Class. The Midland Railway pioneered the concept of offering just two classes in the 1870s and achieved this by abandoning Second Class travel as Fourth Class had long gone. Reluctantly the other railway companies were forced to follow suit and offer Second Class travel accommodation for the cost of Third Class fares.

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