Posts Tagged ‘ New St ’

“Birmingham New Street – my lowest point” (one he missed)

Rail Minister(?) Andrew Adonis, takes a trip to Birmingham New Street. He hates it as it’s: “too small for the heaving throng whose only desire is to get in and out of the station as fast as possible.” That’s. The. Point. Of. Train. Stations. If one more person suggests lumping art galleries or shops into New St, exasberbating its capacity problem, I shall if not scream, be mildly annoyed.

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Snow Hill?

Snow Hill?

Out of the dark the monsters come, originally uploaded by abrinsky. No it’s at New St. Ba-dum-tish. Not a great deal of “Brum in snow pics” about on the web yet — do link us up to good ones in the comments…

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Wavy greenhouse announced

Wavy greenhouse announced

Drawings of what the new foyer of New St station is going to look like. As we can see they’ve gone for a sort of wavy greenhouse look: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! It looks nice, although we do you ever see an architect’s impression that doesn’t? Gotta love their sense of optimism too: See all the pics over at bbc.co.uk or the official site.

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Hughes in Pictures

Hughes in Pictures

Alex Hughes’ weekly cartoon.

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Rail fair?

BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Kelly in £120m New Street pledge UP to £120m is expected to be given to a project to transform Birmingham New Street station…the scheme is mainly concerned with the station’s appearance, and the shopping facilities above the platforms. Just what we need, more shopping facilities – a good few of the actual shops on New St are empty or temporarily occupied. Couldn’t we have £40M to re-open the Moseley – Kings Heath line (sorry, can’t find a link to the info about this – let me know if you have one) and actually increase public transport usage rather than just conspicuous consumption? I’ll bet they money “comes out of different budgets” or something, and while New St could do with a right refurb – transport itself could do with being the priority I reckon.

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