In 1930, the Great Western Railway requested and received parliamentary powers for the compulsory closure of the footpath adjacent to the north east side of the main line viaduct at the Moor Street Station site. The general details of the closure are laid out below, with specific details of required notice periods, retention of public services, compensation, etc. given in section 37 above. In the county of Warwick Lands in the parish and city and county borough of Birmingham lying on the northern side of the Companys Oxford and Birmingham Railway and abutting on Park Street Bordesley Street Allison Street and Shaws Passage and in connection therewith they may stop up and extinguish all rights of way over Shaws Passage. Robert Ferris |