Unused railway viaduct from Liverpool Street, Digbeth - Public toilets at the corner of Great Barr Street / Liverpool Street

A view of the unused railway viaduct from Liverpool Street in Digbeth.

They removed the arches that went over the roads, leaving the bits either side of the road.

The unused viaduct is the Duddeston Viaduct.

The Bordesley Viaduct is then joined by the Duddeston Viaduct which was built in 1846 to link the Oxford and London lines with the new station being built at New Street. However, when the Great Western Railway bought the Oxford line in 1848 and Snow Hill Station was opened, access to New Street was no longer needed and work on the almost completed Duddeston Viaduct was abandoned. Only a small part of the line near Bordesley Station was ever used and that as cattle sidings which still remain high above Upper Trinity Street. Some arches over roads have been demolished but most remains. The unfinished end of the viaduct can be seen in Montague Street.

Bill Dargue - Deritend

When ever I passed by on the train, I kept wondering what happened to this line, why it never got finished. Is there a chance that it could get used in the future for something, a Midland Metro line maybe. Doesn't make sense why it has gone unused for 160 plus years.

Saw an old green Victorian era toilet beside part of the viaduct.

It is Grade II listed.

Titled on Heritage Gateway - Public Toilets Attached To Corner Of 54 Liverpool Street/great Barr Street

Public conveniences built against the side of a building. Late Victorian. Cast iron screens. Three leaf screen on roadside and one and a half on either end. Three panels per cast leaf. Upper panel louvered for ventilation, topped with arrow headed decoration above moulded cornice. Middle and lower panels decorated with elaborate classical design. Entrance with moulded colonettes
with finial, linked by pierced floral pattern tie. Pierced iron brackets supporting glass roof screen. Internally, three stall porcelain urinals with iron division posts.

Public toilets, Liverpool Street - Great Barr Street - Heritage Gateway

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Birmingham / Bordesley (show map)

Taken on: September 26, 2010

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