Birmingham Snow Hill railway station

Birmingham Snow Hill, also known as Snow Hill station, is a railway station in Birmingham City Centre, England. It is one of the three main city-centre stations in Birmingham, along with Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street.

Snow Hill was once the main Birmingham station of the Great Western Railway, at its height, it rivalled New Street station with services to destinations including London Paddington, Wolverhampton Low Level, Birkenhead Woodside, Wales and South West England. The station has been rebuilt several times since the first version, a temporary wooden structure, was opened in 1852; it was rebuilt as a permanent station in 1871 and then rebuilt again on a much grander scale during 1906–1912. The electrification of the main line from London to New Street in the 1960s saw New Street favoured over Snow Hill, most of whose services were withdrawn in the late 1960s. This led to the station's eventual closure in 1972 and its demolition five years later. After fifteen years of the site's use as a car park, a new Snow Hill station, the present incarnation, opened in 1987.

Today, most of the trains using Snow Hill are local services on the Snow Hill Lines, operated by West Midlands Railway, serving Worcester Shrub Hill, Kidderminster, Stourbridge Junction, Stratford-upon-Avon and Solihull. The only long-distance service using Snow Hill, operated by Chiltern Railways via the Chiltern Main Line, serves London Marylebone.

The present station has three platforms for National Rail trains. When it reopened in 1987, it had four, but one was converted in 1999 for use as a terminus for Midland Metro trams from Wolverhampton. This terminus closed in October 2015, in order for the extension of the metro through Birmingham city centre via a dedicated embankment alongside the station, which included a new through stop serving Snow Hill. The fourth platform is due to be returned to heavy rail use in 2026.