Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str425

Looking East from the West end of Platform 10 with the soon to be demolished passenger footbridge over Queens Drive in the middle distance on 22nd May 1965. On the left is a Diesel Multiple unit on one of the few services still operating into New Street station. The short sections of steel tubes seen around the crane are in fact casings used as a temporary support during the boring of piles which were needed under each column support the massive structure that would entomb the station. On the end wall of the multi-storey block on the right is the bull motif of the first rebuilt bull ring which like the station was another 1960s design that failed to deliver the promises of the town planners.

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