Birmingham Central Branch Line Walk - 10th March 2025

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The south portal of Granville Street Goods Tunnel. Birmingham Central Goods was the other end of the tunnel (New Street line left) Granville Street station was hereabouts.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	The southern portal again looking towards Birmingham Central. The higher level Corporation Siding was upper far right.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	In the other direction, right is he top of the castellated New Street end (north) portal of Bath Row Tunnel on the lower level passenger line.<br>[© Adam Turner 2025]	Close up of the top of the north portal of Bath Row Tunnel on the passenger line. Its south portal is just before Five Ways station.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	The double track splits ahead, either side of the Jewish Burial Ground, Bath Row Goods Tunnel is single bore, Corporation Siding descends upper left.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	Bath Row Goods Tunnel which carried the Up line.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	Its southern portal towards Central Goods, the Down line was right of the building.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]
Looking south from the same area, further progress on the Up trackbed was impossible, the line to New Street is right at a lower level.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	The Down trackbed towards Five Ways, Bath Row overbridge, the Up line tunnel is right (off picture) and the Worcester & Birmingham Canal is left.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	The Down trackbed towards Five Ways.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	The original Five Ways station building (impressive) is now 'Sultan Lounge' - an Arabic restaurant - the current 1978 building is just off the photo right. Granville Street passenger station and Birmingham Central Goods were to the right with some of the trackbed can be seen bottom right.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	Ahead is to Birmingham Central, left is to New Street at the lower level; Five Ways station was closed then with the platform nosings removed.	Past Five Ways looking south, down to the former Church Road Jn where the branch joined the present main line, the Canal is behind the wall left.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]	A 'Study in Orange' video scan (hence the exaggerated curve on the wall behind), Five Ways and New Street stations are off right.Ahead is the metal base plate of the wooden signal seen in the black & white photo earlier - the post was lying on its side here.<br>[&copy; Adam Turner 2025]
1:25,000 map, 1950. The west end of New Street station is top right, the 'N' in the 'New Street Station' label is over the large goods shed at the ground level Birmingham Central Goods depot. Church Road Jn is extreme bottom left. The branch is the thin black line between the passenger West Suburban / Gloucester Line (dashed) to the NW and the Worcester & Birmingham Canal to the SE.