{"id":8513,"date":"2012-05-25T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2012-05-25T01:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T00:39:25","slug":"the-magnificent-edwardian-grandeur-of-birmingham-moor-street-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-magnificent-edwardian-grandeur-of-birmingham-moor-street-station\/","title":{"rendered":"The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8538\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-magnificent-edwardian-grandeur-of-birmingham-moor-street-station\/birmingham-moor-street-station-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birmingham-moor-street-station-01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,443\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"birmingham-moor-street-station-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birmingham-moor-street-station-01.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8538\" title=\"birmingham-moor-street-station-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birmingham-moor-street-station-01.jpg\" alt=\"The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birmingham-moor-street-station-01.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birmingham-moor-street-station-01-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautifully restored and putting the nearby New Street station to shame is the magnificent Birmingham\u00a0Moor Street station, situated close to Brum&#8217;s famous Bullring shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/birmingham-moor-street-station-02.jpg\" alt=\"The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station - photo study of Great Western style main line station in Birmingham, England UK\" width=\"620\" height=\"440\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lucky to escape the brutal Beeching cuts of the 1960s, the station enjoyed a \u00a311m refurbishment in 2002, and now looks absolutely resplendent with the 1930s-style signage and fittings beautifully recreating an authentic Great Western Railway atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/birmingham-moor-street-station-11.jpg\" alt=\"The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station - photo study of Great Western style main line station in Birmingham, England UK\" width=\"620\" height=\"436\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a cosmetically restored steam engine on one of the disused platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/birmingham-moor-street-station-09.jpg\" alt=\"The magnificent Edwardian grandeur of Birmingham Moor Street station - photo study of Great Western style main line station in Birmingham, England UK\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I only wish all stations had signs this clear!<\/p>\n<p>More photos here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/birmingham-moor-street-station.html\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Moor Street station photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautifully restored and putting the nearby New Street station to shame is the magnificent Birmingham\u00a0Moor Street station, situated close to Brum&#8217;s famous Bullring shopping centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193,90],"tags":[185,1200,207,125],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-birmingham","tag-railways","tag-station","tag-steam-train"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/birmingham-moor-street-station-001.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8540,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}