Birmingham Snow Hill Autumn 1969

Birmingham Snow Hill's disused signal box from just inside the tunnel. No chance of a King or Castle running me down by this time - through trains had been withdrawn in 1967. In 1969 it was the world's largest unstaffed halt - the only train using the station's 12 platforms was the single car dmu to Wolverhampton Low Level which still ran from the bay platform in the left distance until 1972.

The station lingered on in grand decrepitude until June 1977 when it was finally demolished. In 1987 a new station was reopened on exactly the same location. What a waste of effort all round.