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Birmingham New Street station, viewed from the eastern ('a') end of platform 4. The 1967 concrete structure presents a particularly unapealing impression of England's second city. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Birmingham New Street station, viewed from the eastern ('a') end of platform 4. The 1967 concrete structure topped by the equally undistincitive Pallasades shopping centre presents a particularly unapealing impression of England's second city. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Birmingham New Street station, viewed from the eastern ('a') end of platform 4. The 1967 concrete structure topped by the equally undistincitive Pallasades shopping centre presents a particularly unapealing impression of England's second city. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Birmingham New Street station, viewed from the eastern ('a') end of platform 9. The 1967 concrete structure presents a particularly unapealing impression of England's second city. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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A merged view of Birmingham New Street station, photographed from the eastern ('a') end of platform 4. The 1967 concrete structure topped by the equally undistincitive Pallasades shopping centre presents a particularly unapealing impression of England's second city. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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A merged view of Birmingham New Street station, photographed from the eastern ('a') end of platform 4. The 1967 concrete structure topped by the equally undistincitive Pallasades shopping centre presents a particularly unapealing impression of England's second city. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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Birmingham's famouse Rotunda, one of the few parts of the 1960s iterration of the city centre that has survived into the latest (2000s) redevelopment. This photograph is taken from the eastern end of Birmingham New Street railway station. Photo by Chris McKenna07/04/2006. Larger, higher quality copies of my photos are available, click here for details. If you wish to use this, or any other of my photographs, under a different license see my relicensing policy. Feedback on my pictures is always welcome.

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The northbound end of Birmingham New Street station, the busiest passenger station (in terms of the number of trains that stop) in Great Britain. Photographed by Chris McKenna 15/08/2004.

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The northbound end of Birmingham New Street station, the busiest passenger station (in terms of the number of trains that stop) in Great Britain. The large tower is part of the Bull Ring - one of the most famous landmarks in Birmingham. Photographed by Chris McKenna 15/08/2004.

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The platform interchange concourse at Birmingham New Street station. Birmingham New Street is one of the major interchange stations on the UK rail network, served by the majority of cross-country trains as well as express trains between London, the north-west and Glasgow, midlands regional and local trains, mid-Wales to Eastern England regional and express routes and Birmingham urban services. All of this makes this the bussiest station in the country (in terms of the number of trains that stop). The station is right in the heart of Birmingham City Centre and is partly underground, with all the approach routes in tunnels. This has constrained the station and its approaches such that it is over capacity most of the time. This congestion causes and increases delays to many services, making frequent platform alterations a hallmark of the station - often between distant platforms at short notice. Consequently this interchange concourse is normally heaving with passengers dashing between platforms while trying to avoid both each other and those people standing still working which train they need and at which platform it will arrive at. This photograph was taken at about 8pm on a sunday evening and so the concourse is about as empty as I've ever seen it. Photographed by Chris McKenna 15/08/2004.

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A close-up of the departures screens at Birmingham New Street station. Photographed by Chris McKenna 15/08/2004.

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The departures screens at Birmingham New Street station. The left most two show the list of trains, their destinations what time they are due to depart and what time they are expected. The rest detail the journeys of the next 15 or so trains to depart. The WHSmith is one of two at Birmingham New St - the only station I know of with more than one. Photographed by Chris McKenna 15/08/2004.

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An unidentified Virgin Voyager (class 220 or 221) arrives at platform 6B of Birmigham New Street station with a southbound cross-country service to Bristol Temple Meads. Photographed by Chris McKenna 15/08/2004.