Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str394

Looking East towards London and the rebuilt passenger footbridge with Platform 3 on the right and the now widened platform 1 on the left. It is helpful to remind visitors that designation 'Platform 1' applied to both sides of the bay resulting in Platform 1 having three faces, two for the bay and one for the through trains. Platform 2, which was much narrower and is seen off-centre and to the right, had two faces with both for through trains. Platform 3 on the far right had just the one face also for through traffic. The bay on the left was allocated for Stour Valley trains and was originally built with three roads including a storage siding in the middle. This arrangement meant that Platform 1 was as narrow as platform 2 is to its right. During rebuilding the second platform face from the left was moved further to the left to occupy the original bay line resulting in the old central storage siding becoming the new bay line.

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