Relocation
In the mid 1980s funding became available to re-open a station at Birmingham Snow Hill, and the southern access tracks under Birmingham city centre. As part of the 'Snow Hill Phase One' scheme, a new Moor Street station, with through platforms, was built at the southern portal of the restored Snow Hill tunnel. On completion of this project, the original Moor Street terminus was declared surplus to requirements, and closed down. The final train, on 26 September 1987, was a steam special hauled by a locomotive from Birmingham Railway Museum, Clun Castle.
The original station, a Grade II listed building, was not demolished but, by the late 1990s, cracks in the wall were visible from the road side including some caused by the impact of a runaway bus.
During the 1990s, limited stop Network South East services were introduced from London Marylebone to Snow Hill via Banbury and Leamington Spa, thus making Moor Street a main line station. In the 1960s, London services from Snow Hill ran to Paddington rather than Marylebone.
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