First North Western
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First North Western was a train operating company in England owned by FirstGroup that operated the North West Regional Railways franchise from March 1997 until December 2004.
Class 175 Coradia 1000 at Crewe in 2003
North Western Trains liveried Class 153 at Carlisle station in August 2004
Image: 101 685 at Manchester Piccadilly
Birmingham New Street, also known as New Street station, is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, England, and a central hub of the British railway system. It is a major destination for Avanti West Coast services from London Euston, Preston, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley and West Midlands Trains services from Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston both via the West Coast Main Line. The CrossCountry network centres on New Street, as well as local and suburban services within the West Midlands; these include those on the Cross-City Line between Lichfield Trent Valley, Redditch and Bromsgrove, and the Chase Line to Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley. The three-letter station code is BHM.
The east end of the station, with the newly rebuilt and refurbished building which opened in 2015.
Early 20th century photo taken from the west, showing the LNWR station (left) and the Midland station (right) with the Queens Drive between them
Birmingham New Street station as pictured in the Illustrated London News on 3 June 1854
The interior of the original LNWR station in the late 19th century, with its once record-breaking roof