Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str436

Looking along Platform 8 towards the West end of the station and New Street No 4 Signal Cabin as the sun streams through the roof on 1st August 1964. The station extension used by the Midland was built, unlike the original LNWR station, with two canopies with each covering one set of tracks as seen above. When first built the canopy provided sufficient daylight inside the station because the central portion of the roof was glazed. However by the 1950s the lack of proper cleaning meant that most of the daylight penetrating the gloom within the station entered through the open vent in the centre of the canopy.

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