Birmingham Snow Hill

Small, easy-to-navigate station.I arrived at Birmingham New Street and had to continue my journey from Snow Hill. The walk between the two takes at most 10 minutes and is straightforward.

Best station in Brum, does not get that busy, easy to operate ticket machines and friendly and helpful staff

We use this station when going out or shopping in Birmingham. No need to find parking and able to ha e a drink. So centrally located and everything we need can be reached on foot. Great alternative to driving. Good facilities.

Awful services, overcrowded trains. Staff are clueless, boards don't work half the time. Disgusting station.

16 November 2023. Numerous early morning trains out the station to Kidderminster described as delayed but in reality cancelled. The tannoys don’t work in the waiting rooms so you can’t hear the muffled announcements/excuses. The heated waiting room smelt so appalling we couldn’t sit in it. Presumably some rough sleepers had been in there all night and used it as a toilet before they left. Hardly surprising since the actual toilets were locked shut. The other room on platform 1 had a door that was stuck half open (or half closed?) and was so cold you could have stored ice cream in there.And of course no station staff to explain or apologise for what’s going on.

Birmingham Snow Hill, also known as Snow Hill station, is a railway station in Birmingham City Centre. It is one of the three main city-centre stations in Birmingham, along with Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street.Office of Rail and RoadSnow Hill was once the main station of the Great Western Railway in Birmingham and, at its height, it rivalled New Street station with competitive services to destinations including London Paddington, Wolverhampton Low Level, Birkenhead Woodside, Wales and South West England. The station has been rebuilt several times since the first station at Snow Hill, a temporary wooden structure, was opened in 1852; it was rebuilt as a permanent station in 1871 and then rebuilt again on a much grander scale during 1906–1912. The electrification of the main line from London to New Street in the 1960s saw New Street favoured over Snow Hill, most of whose services were withdrawn in the late 1960s. This led to the station's eventual closure in 1972 and its demolition five years later. After fifteen years of closure, a new Snow Hill station, the present incarnation, was built; it reopened in 1987.Today, most of the trains using Snow Hill are local services on the Snow Hill Lines, operated by West Midlands Railway, serving Worcester Shrub Hill, Kidderminster, Stourbridge Junction, Stratford-upon-Avon and Solihull. The only long-distance service using Snow Hill is to and from London Marylebone, operated by Chiltern Railways via the Chiltern Main Line.The present Snow Hill station has three platforms for National Rail trains. When it was originally reopened in 1987, it had four, but one was later converted in 1999 for use as a terminus for West Midlands Metro trams on the line from Wolverhampton. This tram terminus closed in October 2015, in order for the extension of the West Midlands Metro through Birmingham city centre to be connected; this included a dedicated embankment for trams alongside the station and included a new through stop serving Snow Hill.

Well what can I say lovely Phil from Snow Hill helped me so much today in this heat. My train was cancelled waiting for the next one to get me back to Acocks Green to work. My phone died Phil let me use his and then he got me two bottles of cold water and looked after me. What a gentleman and he came out to check I was ok and in the end to advise all have been cancelled and I got a taxi but, Phil you are the man and everyone who came past all said Hi to you. You are a credit and again Thank YouHelen xx

I used to use Snow Hill every day when I commuted to Birmingham for work. Nowadays I absolutely dread it. Four trains cancelled in a row making it near impossible to get home. It's getting to the point where it's genuinely easier to drive into Birmingham.Filthy toilets that clearly haven't been cleaned in days. Constantly broken escalators. Rude and abrupt staff that don't want to explain the cancellations, let alone help. West Midlands Railway is so awful that I can't tell when strikes are on or not.

My preferred train station for Birmingham City centre as it's a lot less busier than New Street. Very clean and well maintained for a City Centre transport hub, and not too far to walk to New Street it you really need to. I'm probably also fond of it personally because I can get there direct in 6-8 minutes from my local train station.