Proudly at the heart of Britain’s railway. Home to Ozzy @BrummieBull🐂 Train operators: @LNRailway @AvantiWestCoast @WestMidRailway @crosscountryuk @tfwrail
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🌞 With hot weather warnings extended, there will be a reduced train service across the West Midlands on Friday
📱Only travel if absolutely necessary and allow extra time
💧 Carry water and use our refill points to fill your bottles across the station
@nationalrailenq
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The tables are set for 200 people and some are already queuing outside- not long now until the #BHMXmasMeal - a partnership between @MidlandLangar and @NetworkRailBHM to bring some festive cheer to Birmingham’s homeless
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GRABBING THE 🐂 BY THE HORNS
🌟 We’re so pleased to be welcoming our bostin “Raging Bull” back home!
🎟 Arriving on a one-way ticket to Birmingham New Street this summer…
@birminghamcg22 @BhamCityCouncil @andy4wm @WestMids_CA
Read more 👉 gloo.to/6jlO
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Stage is set for our 2019 #ChristmasEve meal for 350 homeless and vulnerable people in #Birmingham 👉 networkrail.co.uk/news/chris…
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Ta to whoever felt it necessary to leave our toilets in this state last night 👇
Almost £5k of damage and a whole set of toilets out of order today
Luckily we can get it fixed today - and @BTPBhm are already on the case prosecuting those responsible 🚨
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Even with the reduced timetable, this is still a rare occasion!
Platform 1 right through to platform 12 👀
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😢 The end of an era for the longest train journey in Britain
🗺️ The last Aberdeen to Penzance @CrossCountryUK train passed through Birmingham New Street earlier
📈 775 miles and 45 stations on the 13hr+ route
🫡 It was great being part of your journey
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Our 2019 #ChristmasEve banquet for homeless and vulnerable people in full swing @MidlandLangar
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Only 13 days before #TheWitcher season 2 hits our screens. Come see this Myriapod at Birmingham New Street! And don’t forget to rewatch season 1! #WitcherRewatch #WitcherCon #Netflix
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End of an era … today BHM platform co-ordinator Mohammed Malik, known as Mr Malik, calls time on a career on the railway spanning 47 years, one month and 18 days.
Mr Malik - we salute you, we love you, we wish you well 👍🙏❤️👏🤝
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We've given an empty shop to @uhbtrust so patients needing routine blood tests don't have to visit hospital
The temporary phlebotomy clinic is for patient referrals only
🆎🅰️🅱️🅾️
We're doing everything we can to help @NHSuk tackle #coronavirus #COVIDー19 gapi.io/6QQJ
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In pictures 📸
🐂The tightest of squeezes for our Ozzy
His head just about made it through the station’s 2.3m wide doors 😮💨
Fortunately the horns were a bit easier for @artem_sfx to carry!
#OzzyBullNewSt
@WestMids_CA @networkrail @mikebreakfast @BBCBreakfast
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Check out the new rehydration point!We hope that by making this small change, we not only help quench the thirst of our station users, but also have a positive impact on the environment by reducing single-use plastics. We’ve helped eliminate the use of 689 plastic bottles. ^EK
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🗣️ Come and take a ride on New Street's new slide!
🛠️ Teams have completed a state-of-the-art access slide to platforms 2 and 3
✨ In a 1.4m investment, we're building 20-22 slides across the station to help out with tight transfers
📲 Read more: bit.ly/NewStNewSlide
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📽️It's the end of the line for this ICON🚦
👷♂️Our signallers will move their last train from the Birmingham New St Power Signal Box tomorrow🛤️
🚆After 57 years of 24/7 work it's time for retirement🙏
👉Read about its past and what happens next here gloo.to/6ofi
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👏CONGRATULATIONS to selfless @NetworkRail signaller and @Wolves fan Manny Kang AKA @pedalsingh - he's been nominated for a @PrideofBritain award for raising more than £40k 😲 for @DementiaUK👏 Tune into @ITVCentral from 6pm tonight or read more here 👉 bit.ly/MannyPrideOfBritain
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New St decorated and ready for @BirminghamPride
These will be kept out all year around to show our support 365!
Get a photo with them and tag us in using #NewStPride to be featured in our banner photo 📷 ^EK
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323 222 🪝323 240 are nearly coming to an end ⛔️
Final departures are 21:06 to Lichfield and 22:53 to Bromsgrove
#class323
It’s been a pleasure dispatching you 😢
👋🏻 Farewell 👋🏻 ^EK
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A rare image of the platforms from 1 to 12 at #Birmingham New Street.
Taken from platform 1 and visible to see right through to the other side of the station ^SK
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In just over a week since installation, a big thank you to all our customers who have used our Rehydration Station who have helped eliminate the waste from over 1300 plastic bottles.
Our facility is in the Red Lounge near to the ticket gates of M&S/Starbucks (by platform 12) ^SK
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Made up from more than 3,700 individual photos, installing the @PeoplesPicture #faceofsuffrage mosaic @NetworkRailBHM was a huge task overnight - as you can see from this impressive time-lapse footage @grainphotohub @HLFWestMids @OfMidlands
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🕥TIME-LAPSE ALERT📹
🐂Done in 60 seconds👍🏻
Check out this amazing time-lapse footage of our Ozzy being built on the concourse over the last few weeks
#OzzyNewStreet
Catch up on @MrsSOsbourne unveiling him here 👉🏻gloo.to/6TZ1
@networkrail @WestMids_CA @artem_sfx
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This morning we held 1 minute of silence in memory of those who tragically lost their lives in the incident at #Carmont near #Stonehaven 1 week ago. 🤍
Thank you to all who took part in these moments of reflection. @NetworkRailSCOT
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On behalf of the whole team at Birmingham New Street we would like to thank you for observing the 11am 2 minute silence.
In memory and in respect of those killed or injured in defence of their country. #Armistace100 ^EK
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📦 We’ve had a special delivery 🚚
A truck load of bull has now arrived at Birmingham New Street 👀
🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂
Read more here 👉🏻 gloo.to/6TOU
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🐱 We've had an update from the vet - the tiny kitty is a 5-week-old male 🥺
🐈 Please take EVERYTHING with you when you get off the train - we can't be a railway rescue centre!
📲 Read more: gloo.to/6cJP
@CrossCountryUK
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It’s the end of the “line” for @WestMidRailway 323’s in the West Midlands 😢
The last circuit for 323 222 🪝323 240 will be….
New St departures:
16:53 to Bromsgrove
18:06 to Lichfield
19:53 to Bromsgrove
21:06 to Lichfield
And finally 22:53 to Bromsgrove 👋🏻 👋🏻
^EK
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Look who’s back, back again? 323s are back, tell a friend 🎶
Well…. Only for 6 minutes before heading off to Long Marston 😢 ^EK
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🐂 He’s back!
💪🏼Well he never went away, but he is back to full fitness!
😍It’s great to see Ozzy moving again - come and say hello and show him some Brummie love
#OzzyNewStreet
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⚠️Breaking News⚠️
🎄The Christmas Eve meal is back for 2020🎄
🍽We’re joining forces with @MidlandLangar once again to provide 250 hot meals and festive cheer to people facing Christmas on the streets in Birmingham🍽
Find out more here 👉 gloo.to/6yms
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⚠️❗️Passengers being moved safely to alternative train due to overhead line damage halting train at #Winsford near #Crewe
🚨Rail services severely disrupted due to #StormCiara 🚨
Please keep checking for latest updates @nationalrailenq
@LNRailway @AvantiWestCoast
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Welcome home Ozzy!
Great to finally unveil one of the stars of the Commonwealth Games 2022 here at Birmingham New Street station.
We hope you love him as much as we do!
@MrsSOsbourne @LordPeterHendy @andy4wm @artem_sfx
#OzzyNewStreet
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⛔️There are no trains running in or out of New Street station
⛔️The station is exit only until further notice - you will not be able to get in
⛔️Because of the extreme temperatures there is disruption across the network
⛔️Please DO NOT TRAVEL today
@nationalrailenq
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🚨TRAVEL ALERT🚨
🚊Birmingham New Street station is currently closed while @BTP inspect a suspicious item found on a platform🛤
‼️Disruption is expected for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening‼️
🙏Please check @nationalrailenq for latest travel updates 🙏
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🎥A railway first as SIX track removal machines were connected to move a half kilometre section of track in one go!
🏗🏗🏗🏗🏗🏗
🛤✨We’re upgrading track on the #WaterOrton corridor while work takes place to prepare for #HS2
Read more➡️bit.ly/Water_Orton
@CrossCountryUK
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All aboard the Christmas Express! Did you see the steam train at the station this morning? ^JMC
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How is your Monday going? We thought we would share with you this little beauty that passed through our station this weekend. Thanks to our Duty Operations Manager for taking the footage 😊 ^LM
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All of us at Birmingham New Street would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas! ^JMC #MerryChristmas #workingtogether #fullofchristmasspirit
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If you’re wondering when Ozzy (@BrummieBull) does his thing - between 8am and 8pm he’ll:
⏱️roar at quarter past the hour
🐂 do mini moves every 15 minutes at half past, quarter to and on the hour
Be sure to use the #OzzyNewStreet as we’d love to see your snaps 📸
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As part of #socialmediaday, we have a prize worth over £100 up for grabs donated by our retail teams!
To be in with a chance of winning simply follow @networkrailbhm and like and retweet this post!
The winner will be picked at random this evening!🤞🏼#giveaways #Competition ^JMC
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This morning we were visited by a ‘steam-tastic’ guest. 🚂
The Castle Centenarian, hauled by double-headed Castle Class steam locomotives No. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and No. 7029 Clun Castle, departed this morning to Hereford via Shrewsbury! 🤩
Did you catch a glimpse? ^j
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Fancy winning a behind the scenes tour of Birmingham New Street Station?
Follow and RT for a chance to win. When we reach 20k followers, we’ll announce the lucky winners. #competition #birmingham
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💄Just a little makeover ready for @BirminghamPride 💃🏻 🕺
🎉 Come and visit for the pre-party pride event at the station! (25th & 26th)
💪🏼We’re proud to be an inclusive employer @NRArchway
#BHMPride #NetworkRailBHMPride #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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👈↖️ All signs point to Brum! 👉↩️
🚏 Look our for our new signpost (you can’t really miss it) if you’re coming through the station!
🤔 No more working out the best exit with this bad boy
Did we miss anywhere out? Let us know what you think 📝
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This is what we’re up against. Shots of #snowdrifts at the #Stone #Colwich junction on the main line in Staffordshire @VirginTrains @LNRailway @CrossCountryUK @nationalrailenq
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😀 Exciting news!!
🚉 Severn Valley Railway and Birmingham Moor Street have been chosen as the first two stops for the Railway 200 exhibition train coming this summer!
📹 We've been at @svrofficialsite celebrating the announcement 🥳
➡️ Find out more: gloo.to/Fwwf
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⚠️ The railway is blocked between #Wolverhampton & #Shrewsbury due to severe flooding on the railway
📲 Please check @nationalrailenq for the latest journey info
@WestMidRailway
📸 We’re on site near Wellington station where the line is currently submerged
#StormBabet
📣WMRUPDATE1 - LINE BLOCKED
🔴Due to flooding on the railway services between Shrewsbury - Wolverhampton services are subject to cancellation.
🚌 Rail replacement has been to call at all stations between Shrewsbury - Wolverhampton.
🤳 Live updates - orlo.uk/CqQJ1
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Check out the signallers panel for B'ham New St! Our dedicated team of signallers work around the clock signalling trains in and out of Bham
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😴 Goodnight from Birmingham New St!
Platforms 1 through to 12! Captured this rare moment before the trains come to stable for the night. ^EK
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👀 What’s going on here then?
🚧 We know you know - we’ve started to get ready for Ozzy’s arrival!
🤩 The excitement is building as we countdown to the big day - and we’ll announce the date ASAP
🐂 And yes, he really is that big…
#BirminghamForever #OzzyNewStreet
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Not all our guests bring their own red sofa but @stephbreakfast of @BBCBreakfast is one such guest 👍🏾
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🍽️ Our Christmas dinner for the homeless is in full swing
🎄 A team of volunteers from @MidlandLangar are working alongside us to ensure everyone gets a hot roast dinner this Christmas
🎅 Santa is also here giving out some Christmas goodies and winter essentials
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Massive HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Birmingham New Street! 🥳 5 years ago today we reopened the newly developed station transforming it into a major transport hub, stimulating economic growth and regeneration in the city. #birthday #puttingpassengersfirst ^JMC
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Main courses going out now at the #BHMXmasMeal - tofu turkey with all the trimmings - roast potatoes and veg. @MidlandLangar with volunteers from @NetworkRailBHM @WestMidRailway - all 200 seats are now full with our dinner guests enjoying the food and carols
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‼️We have a surprise guest at Birmingham New Street! 🎤Very excited to be hosting @CraigDavid as part of #BBCMusicDay 🎹🎸🥁 - we’re live now as is @BBCBreakfast after 9am on 📺‼️ pscp.tv/w/cFxkJzY2NTcwMDl8MV…
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#10YearChallenge
who remembers the “old” Birmingham New Street? What do you remember from the old station?
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The escalators to the Pallasades 📶
The old lift subway ⬆️⬇️
Millie’s Cookies 🍪
^EK
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🚆 Trains and stations will be extra busy today
🖤Thousands of people are expected in Birmingham to pay their respects and celebrate Ozzy Osbourne
📱 Please plan your journey, check before you travel, and allow extra time
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ℹ️While passenger numbers are greatly reduced, we are deep cleaning throughout the station. This will keep it safe now and looking its best for when everything returns to normal. @AvantiWestCoast @CrossCountryUK @tfwrail @LNRailway @WestMidRailway ℹ️
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Christmas cards handwritten by children from Queen’s Croft Primary school in Great Barr will greet @NetworkRailBHM and @midlandlangar 200guests at the #BHMXmasMeal as they get seated shortly - thanks to @GoldenTentHire for the great set up
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😱 Shocking CCTV shows dog walker ignore safety warnings and push through a closed level crossing barrier
🚆 Their reckless action caused a @WestMidRailway train to have to stop near #Blakedown station
‼️ Please obey warnings at level crossings
👉 gloo.to/6ZHZ
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ℹ️🧽The deep clean of New Street has continued in the Navigation Street entrance area. We’ve also been fixing faults with the doors so the station will be cleaner and better for passengers when things return to normal. #IsYourJourneyNecesaary #StayHomeSaveLives 🧽ℹ️
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⚠️ This dramatic video shows significant flooding at #WoodEnd station in #Warwickshire
📲 Please check nationalrail.co.uk for the latest travel advice
🦺 Our teams are continuing to respond to flooding incidents across the network
#StormBabet
🧡 Stay safe everyone
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Please RT and help me find my owner! I was left on a train yesterday and the staff at New St have now got me announcing and dispatching trains 🙄 🐻 ^EK
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🐂It’s OZZY!!!
More than 28,000 of you voted - and 70% of you chose another Birmingham icon🤘🏻
🙏Thanks to everyone who took part
For more click here 👉🏻 gloo.to/6Kfp
Next stop - New Street station concourse!
@WestMids_CA @networkrail @artem_sfx
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🐂Peekaboo - can’t wait to see you‼️
I’ll be doing my full main moves for passengers this lunchtime
0️⃣ days to go🥳
#OzzyNewStreet
@networkrail @WestMids_CA @BhamFestival23 @artem_sfx
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The first passenger train has travelled on the newly electrified railway line from Walsall-Rugeley Trent Valley. Rail minister Andrew Jones MP was joined by @amandamilling @WestMidRailway @networkrail @LNRailway @transportgovuk @TransportforWM and @WMRailExecutive.
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The .@samaritans are turning #BlueMonday into #BrewMonday. Don’t let it stew, why not come together with someone today, chat away and share a brew!
The team are setup and ready to meet you, so why not come and pop along today in the station atrium to find out more ^SK
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🚦🚊Network Rail signaller & @Wolves fan ⚽️@pedalsingh is cycling 🚴♀️ 100 miles from Wolverhampton to Liverpool on the last day of the @premierleague season to raise thousands for @DementiaUK 👉 gapi.io/6vYx @ExpressandStar @ITVCentral @bbcmtd @FA @LFC @WolvesFC_latest
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🎺A fitting tribute to @OzzyOsbourne in the station today, from the amazing @TheCBSO
🎸Playing @BlackSabbath in front of @BrummieBull was an emotional moment
👊🏼 We’re so proud to host events that celebrate this great city and its amazing people
#birminghamforever
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If you’re moving slower than usual btwn #SnowHill #Worcester & #Hereford this eve, you have this lorry driver to thank - ploughed through level crossing barriers at #Hartlebury 🙄 Sorry folks
@BTPWestMids alerted
@WestMidRailway @nationalrailenq
💜 be safe be patient be kind
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Together we face a huge challenge.
The railway has a vital role to play in keeping Britain’s vital supplies and key workers moving.
Together we are rising to this challenge.
#railwayfamily #Covid_19 #coronavirusuk #backboneofbritain
#TogetherWeRise
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The piano that was kindly donated by @fairdealmusic proves to be getting more popular by the day! Absolutely fantastic. #Birmingham #Music #Piano ^MW
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👷🏽♂️Today after 6 months we reopened Landor Street in Birmingham after careless lorry drivers repeatedly bashed into this railway bridge cracking a STEEL protection beam‼️🚚🚛 LORRIES CAN’T LIMBO! It cost £100k+ to fix and impacted businesses - More here 👉 gapi.io/6Ozc
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🤝 Our team have been at @svrofficialsite today as part of our partnership with them, offering expertise and advice on this huge landslip
❤️ Heritage railway plays such an important role in the past, present and future of Britain’s railway and we’ll continue to help where we can
Engineers are assessing the damage to the Severn Valley Railway after a "devastating" landslip.
bbc.in/42DZe2z
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Our Assisted Travel Lounge is now open! The lounge will offer those that need extra help when travelling by train, a calm and relaxing environment.
The lounge is located in the Red lounge near 2/3b.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the opening of this facility.
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Fantastic performance by @TheCBSO Platform Symphony. Who can guess the theme tune they are playing? #BBCMusicDay ^LK
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A bit of Birmingham you don’t see very often. The view from Grand Central at 4am, looking lovely this morning. ^LK
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We’re doing our annual homeless Christmas dinner!🍴
A team of volunteers from @MidlandLangar are working alongside us this evening to ensure everyone can get a hot roast dinner this Christmas 🎄
Santa is also here giving out some Christmas goodies & essentials🎅
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At the station today we have a walk up Pfizer vaccination unit and lateral flow kits being handed out.
(Appointments not necessary)
^EK
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Here's a sight you don't see every day at BHM!
975025 'Caroline' passing through the station, propelled by 37049 'Lord Hinton'. ^PM
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Check out our new #LGBT barriers!🏳️🌈
Did you know across @networkrail our staff volunteer to be diversity and inclusion champions? @birminghamlgbt
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Tag us in your thumbs up photo with our 🏳️🌈 barriers! 👍🏼📷 ^EK
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Birmingham New Street coming together to say a huge THANK YOU to all NHS staff and key workers! #weloveNHS #ClapForCarers #WereAllInThisTogether
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⚠️Services between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury are disrupted after a train hit a tree on the line.
👷🏼We will clear the tree and damaged train as quickly as possible.
ℹ️Please check @nationalrailenq @WestMidRailway @tfwrail for the latest information.
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⏱TIME-LAPSE🎥
⚙️Last night @SkanskaUKplc engineers successfully drove a 2,600-tonne bridge into place as part of work to build @HS2ltd 🚄
🙏Thanks to @CrossCountryUK passengers for their patience during today’s railway Birmingham to Coleshill closure @nationalrailenq
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Both lines have now re-opened at Marston Green.
Our thoughts go out to the two tragic events at Marston Green today. Please please please remember the @samaritans are always there to listen and small talk saves lives 👂
^EK
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