The Snow Hill Lines are railway lines running through Birmingham Snow Hill railway station, Birmingham, United Kingdom. All other lines to/through Birmingham use Birmingham New Street station.
The three Snow Hill lines are:
- Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line - a commuter line;
- Chiltern Main Line - a regional mainline and commuter line with services to London Marylebone;
- Birmingham to Stratford Line - a commuter line.
Unlike the lines to/through New Street station, the lines are not electrified, and are operated by Class 150, 165, 168, & 172 diesel multiple units and Class 67 locomotives with Mark 3 coaches. However, electrification is a future aspiration of Network Rail and Chiltern Railways.
The Snow Hill Line may also refer to the Snow Hill Tunnel, now used by Thameslink in London.
Famous quotes containing the words snow, hill and/or lines:
“I weathered some merry snow-storms, and spent some cheerful winter evenings by my fireside, while the snow whirled wildly without, and even the hooting of the owl was hushed. For many weeks I met no one in my walks but those who came occasionally to cut wood and sled it to the village.... For human society I was obliged to conjure up the former occupants of these woods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“‘O glorious Life, Who dwellest in earth and sun,
I have lived, I praise and adore Thee.”
A sword swept.
Over the pass the voices one by one
Faded, and the hill slept.”
—Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938)
“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)