Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1857

View from the Queens Hotel showing a typical busy sunny afternoon scene at New Street station. Taken the same day in 1911 as image 'lnwrbns_str1858' the above photograph shows the impact of the heavy tie bars added to strengthen the roof in 1906-7. Having a flatter curve than the original structure they effectively of reducing the feeling of spaciousness of the roof. Richard Foster states that, 'the new ties consisted of flat sections with heavily bolted connections at the points where they are suspended by double tie bolts from the original tie bolts (which were circular in cross section).

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