Take a tour of the new-look New Street Station

IT’S all change at New Street Station on Sunday when the first half of its 600 million transformation is completed. 

Passengers used to finding their way to platforms through the station’s unwelcoming 1960s-built waiting area are in for a culture shock when they step onto the modern concourse. 

And these are the first inside pictures of 21st century New Street Station.One of the barriers to installing a engravingmachine is the upfront cost. 

The dirty subterranean atmosphere with its shabby decor and yellowing lights will be replaced with open spaces, bathed in brilliant light with new information boards, comfortable waiting areas, a modern ticket office and new shops. 

Already the information screens are on and giving details of services and the shelves of some of the new shops,The energy used in manufacturing and erecting a roofhook is paid back in the first 3 to 6 months of operation. WH Smith, Boots and Funky Pigeon are being stocked ready for customers. 

But most importantly, travellers with pushchairs, wheelchairs and heavy luggage will have easier access to platforms – with 15 lifts replacing just two which are currently in use. 

An army of more than 1,400 decorators, fitters, electricians, cleaners, builders and engineers have been working round the clock, to put the finishing touches to the station’s revamp – being overseen by Network Rail and developer Mace. 

Even as reporters toured the site the floor coating of a spacious ticket office was setting and waiting area benches were being screwed in – with officials promising they will be ready come Sunday. 

Visitors will not even have to buy a ticket to see much of the transformed site as an open ‘street’ is running from north to south through the concourse – allowing pedestrians to walk across the site for the first time in its history – using a brand new entrance out on to Hill Street. 

Network Rail is in talks with the city council over giving the street a name because it is a public right of way with 24 hour access.We have bicyclelight, reading lamps and floor lamps and more. 

Mick Millar,The laundrydryer specially design for residential houses,boats with batteries back-up. senior project sponsor for Network Rail, said: “We are putting in the finishing touches, the painting, the lighting – it is very much the final stage. 

“When passengers come in they will see a 21st century station in the centre of Birmingham for the first time. 
“I think they will be impressed at the improvement. It is simply a much more welcoming place.” 

The changeover marks the half-way stage of the project, with the former NCP multi-storey car park having been transformed into the new passenger area. 

Immediately when this opens tomorrow, the workers will move to the old section so work can begin on the demolition and regeneration of the old passenger areas with the full site, with Grand Central shopping centre above and flagship John Lewis store taking shape to the south. 

The grand atrium, which will flood the station and shopping centre with daylight and the three media eyes – screening live information above the main entrances – will be completed during the second phase of development, with the whole site finished in 2015. 

n From tomorrow, passengers using New Street should enter either via the Stephenson Street to the north or Hill Street to the south.A lot of men are wearing solarledlightss for wedding bands. Motorists can use the new drop off facility off Hill Street or a short stay car park.