The Small Heath station building is seen looking a little down on its luck on Golden Hillock Road. The station was opened in 1863 by the Great Western Railway with the station expanded in 1906 when the Birkenhead to Paddington route was quadrupled south of Birmingham. The only access to the station is via the entrance to the left of this view with one island platform still in use. The other entrance is boarded up and the platform out of use. However, the station has seen a steady rise in patronage over recent years so is there a possibilty that the closed pltaform will reopen in the future I wonder?
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