{"id":14793,"date":"2016-06-02T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14793"},"modified":"2016-06-02T19:52:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:52:39","slug":"in-pictures-snow-hill-opens-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=14793","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Snow Hill opens to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two days after passenger services were inaugurated to Grand Central (New Street Station) on Midland Metro\u2019s Birmingham City Centre extension came the opening of another stop with the new stop at Snow Hill welcoming its first passengers on Wednesday 1st June. The stop \u2013 which replaces the former terminus inside the railway station \u2013 was not quite completed in time for the opening day but with the finishing works now significantly progressed it is now possible to alight at the stop.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s where some problems may actually start as access to the railway station directly from the stop isn\u2019t actually available at the moment. The plan is that passengers will be able to alight from the tram at Snow Hill and access the railway station via the Livery Street entrance but unfortunately construction work to allow this hasn\u2019t been completed yet. This means that any passenger who decides to get off the tram at Snow Hill has to walk alongside the grassed track towards the city centre and if they want to get to the station they almost have to go as far as Bull Street! In other words if you want Snow Hill station you are probably better off getting off at Bull Street as the walk will be shorter.<\/p>\n

The first services to call at the new Snow Hill stop did so from the start of service on Wednesday 1st June and from now on all services will stop here.<\/p>\n

* We will have full coverage from the opening of the full Birmingham City Centre extension on British Trams Online<\/em> in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

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22 calls at Snow Hill on the second day following its opening with an inbound service to Grand Central.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A view looking north at Snow Hill showing the construction works still ongoing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A general view of Snow Hill stop looking towards Birmingham City Centre.<\/p><\/div>\n

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26 arrives at Snow Hill with a northbound service.<\/p><\/div>\n

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20 approaches Snow Hill as it makes it way towards Grand Central. (All Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just two days after passenger services were inaugurated to Grand Central (New Street Station) on Midland Metro\u2019s Birmingham City Centre extension came the opening of another stop with the new stop at Snow Hill welcoming its first passengers on Wednesday … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14800,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}