Birmingham New Street's grand opening
The new station at Birmingham New Street opens today after a building project that lasted five years, and together with the Grand Central shopping complex, cost around £750million to build.
New Street archive: The changes to ticket offices
With the new Birmingham New Street having such up-to-date technology, it is quite a contrast to look back into the archives to see how it was before.
When the previous station opened in the 1960s, ATV produced a documentary looking at the developments, highlighting the modern qualities to ticket offices such as being fully automated, printing tickets to any destination while passengers waited.
Below are the ticket machines that came into use in April 2013, when the new concourse of Phase One of the latest development opened to the public. Rather different to those in use in 1967...
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We catch up with travellers at New Street station
We get your views as you use New Street station for the first time
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New Street: A history of station development
From the 19th Century station likened to the St Pancras masterpiece, to the latest renovation of the 'dark and dingy' concrete building.
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Who's at Birmingham New Street station today?
We catch up with some people travelling through the station today to get their reaction.