Yup New Street sure is haunted. I got warned of that when I worked there. I have seen a spirit there, long before I knew of New Street's reputation for being haunted. Unfortunately New Street's reputation for attracting suicides has been abused by managers who claimed staff members had saved people from committing suicide (in recent years). None of this is true, it was all just PR. But the tunnels under New Street (staff tunnels, not for public access) are something else - I wouldn't want to be alone down there! I was down there only once or twice and there were workmen hanging around as that was when the station got rebuilt in 2015. At least I hope they were workmen... wouldn't fancy being there alone, not at all!
I used to live in Brum, before the refurbishment, and frequently used New Street. Being disabled I'd use the lifts, some platforms I'd need to go down, through tunnel, then up to concourse (upper) level; that tunnel always gave me the heebies, several times I've felt someone touch my arm, but I was alone.
In my country, there's a really haunted locomotive, with the number BB 301 27, that is maybe good for one of your videos. The haunting begins when two train driver is fighting in one of the cab of the 2-cab locomotive. They fight until one of them was pushed to the locomotive's ventilation system, and literally DECAPITATING him. Not long after that, the other train driver commits suicide in the locomotive's cab. Since then, the locomotive was extremely haunted. There are many reports about paranormal sighting in the cab, the door that can close itself in a calm day, even the locomotive can run itself without a driver and causing crashes. Not just that, even one time the locomotive can disappear, and somehow ended up in other station along with the reports of the locomotive running with no one inside it. And the locomotive is now sitting in a scrapyard, with its condition makes it looks even scarier.
New street is my second main station & use it frequently. One night in 2018 on platform 4 I was waiting to get a train back home to Walsall after a day of plane spotting at the airport. As I was waiting a guy in a 1920s outfit stood next to me. Thinking wow this guy peaky blinders costume looks awesome I tried to get my camera phone out an was going as ask if I could take a photo of him. But after 10 second of getting out my phone he was gone. At the time I thought nothing of it. Until I got home and thought there was no way he would of walked off to the escalators on either side of the platform without me noticing. So I was like shit this is the second ghost I have seen. Ever since then been keeping an eye incase he reappears. I am also into disasters and I am aware of several fatal train accidents in New Street & other areas of the West Midlands.
I've never really thought about New Street much. Busy place, but nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe the spirits just left me in peace when I've been there?
these have gone from spooky stories to real stories of human tragedy, with an increase in the spook factor... Waiting for the final few to really blow our minds
After seeing the video I fully agree. All those rebuildings went from bad to worse, though the last one is, at least, more colorful than the concrete mess they constructed in the sixties.
There is another abandoned Jewish cemetery just out of New Street. It's the other side of Islaington Row from Five Ways Station, wedged between the Cross-city line and the old spur that ran to Gas Street. Totally overgrown, until a few years ago you could actually gain access to it but not now. The headstones are interesting, as they have inscriptions in both English and Jewish/Hebrew, with dates showing both ways of calculating the years - AD ('Common era') and the Jewish way - I think it dates from the reestablishment of the Temple. If I'm wrong, can a Jewish reader enlighten me, please?
I believe this is the replacement..,,access from the new road bridge and/oe from rail/canal level below & thro' the closed tunnel which led to the former goods depot off Suffolk St
Jewish years begin with the supposed date of the biblical creation(genesis). So the current Jewish year is 5783, as it has been that many years since creation according to Jewish theology.
Ghosts my foot. It's all the pollution in that subterranean hell hole making people hallucinate. BNS is the worst station in the country by miles. I don't think I've ever been there without throwing up due to either excess beer or a migraine from all of the NOx. Or both.
@@Ramosway2 I was going to Tywyn in July and Birmingham New Street was part of the journey, I got stuck there for 3 or so hours due to a heat wave so hot it caused disruptions to rail services.
New streets full of ghost stories as I mentioned on a previous video I was told about the tunnel’s and shown the entrance to them during my princes trust course with Intertrain and because I’m catching the train to and from my local station Chester road I’ve frequently found myself on platform four in the early mornings between 6am and 7am from September of last year right up to February 4th of this year I may not believe as much in ghosts but being in new street just makes me feel off especially those tunnels I wasn’t told the exact story behind them but I felt something drawing me into it when I was shown them and it’s peeked my interest in trying to find out what exactly happened there or the story behind them especially the Mail tunnel
Ah you are from Chester Road - why platform 4 though, the Cross City trains usually depart from platform 8 or 9 and on arrival they usually go into platform 12?
@@Erika_Banba Must have been when it's very busy, if there's a late runner and trains are piling up in the bottleneck outside New Street, they put them into any platform. For the passengers this means quickly running across the station! I hate it when they do that.
Still think you should do the Virginia Church Hill tunnel accident of the train and bodies of workers who worked on the tunnel being buried alive after the tunnel collapsed during rebuilding construction. The tunnel was closed off for good after the accident. To this day the train and the bodies of the people who were buried alive are still there. People who have went and visited the tunnel will spot ghosts of the workers there. Since the tunnel is built under a town. A lot of town folk who have their homes built above the tunnel can sometimes hear the streaking moans of men from their homes coming from the tunnel. There is even said that a vampire is also seen near the sight of the tunnel. A lot of fun stories on this case if you do a video on it.
I fear it was more WW2 that did for New Street- my dad has a print of it how it was and i never twigged it was the Same Station, lovely train shed but very dilapidated with bits missing in the 50's, same with lots of stations, you'd think it was planned or somthing...
I had a brainfart, ive read the description like it was a coment, and for a few seconds i didnt realise it Also btw, big city centers just have corpses underneath, thats the (maybe legit) first rule of city-terrain
Birmingham New Street has gone from one of the worst stations in the UK to one of the best. Waiting for the Commonwealth Games Bull to land on the concourse in the summer of 2023.
fascinating story, but why do we still use the yank title TRAIN staion, when brits always called it a RAILWAY station...more transatlantic mangling of our language
Thats life im afraid, people travel, people say what they want, however they want. In my 33 years of living, i have never called it a railway station. Also it has nothing to do with americans.
All work and no play makes ToT a train boy
“trains stations”
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I just stepped out an West Midland's service at Birmingham New Street as this Video came out😂
Blessed!
Cursed!
Or maybe, both...
Yup New Street sure is haunted. I got warned of that when I worked there. I have seen a spirit there, long before I knew of New Street's reputation for being haunted. Unfortunately New Street's reputation for attracting suicides has been abused by managers who claimed staff members had saved people from committing suicide (in recent years). None of this is true, it was all just PR. But the tunnels under New Street (staff tunnels, not for public access) are something else - I wouldn't want to be alone down there! I was down there only once or twice and there were workmen hanging around as that was when the station got rebuilt in 2015. At least I hope they were workmen... wouldn't fancy being there alone, not at all!
I used to live in Brum, before the refurbishment, and frequently used New Street. Being disabled I'd use the lifts, some platforms I'd need to go down, through tunnel, then up to concourse (upper) level; that tunnel always gave me the heebies, several times I've felt someone touch my arm, but I was alone.
In my country, there's a really haunted locomotive, with the number BB 301 27, that is maybe good for one of your videos.
The haunting begins when two train driver is fighting in one of the cab of the 2-cab locomotive. They fight until one of them was pushed to the locomotive's ventilation system, and literally DECAPITATING him. Not long after that, the other train driver commits suicide in the locomotive's cab.
Since then, the locomotive was extremely haunted. There are many reports about paranormal sighting in the cab, the door that can close itself in a calm day, even the locomotive can run itself without a driver and causing crashes.
Not just that, even one time the locomotive can disappear, and somehow ended up in other station along with the reports of the locomotive running with no one inside it.
And the locomotive is now sitting in a scrapyard, with its condition makes it looks even scarier.
I walk past New Street Station all the time I had no idea it had such a history!
New street is my second main station & use it frequently. One night in 2018 on platform 4 I was waiting to get a train back home to Walsall after a day of plane spotting at the airport. As I was waiting a guy in a 1920s outfit stood next to me. Thinking wow this guy peaky blinders costume looks awesome I tried to get my camera phone out an was going as ask if I could take a photo of him. But after 10 second of getting out my phone he was gone. At the time I thought nothing of it. Until I got home and thought there was no way he would of walked off to the escalators on either side of the platform without me noticing. So I was like shit this is the second ghost I have seen. Ever since then been keeping an eye incase he reappears. I am also into disasters and I am aware of several fatal train accidents in New Street & other areas of the West Midlands.
This has been a great, fascinating, and interesting series so far. I'm enjoying every day.
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CLAAAAAARKSOOOOOOOOOOOOON WHERE'S MY SHOE LIFTS AND TEETH WHITENING KIT?!?!
I would hate to be surrounded by ghost late one night, that would shake me to my core.
I've never really thought about New Street much. Busy place, but nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe the spirits just left me in peace when I've been there?
these have gone from spooky stories to real stories of human tragedy, with an increase in the spook factor... Waiting for the final few to really blow our minds
"Rebuilt due to being an eyesore"
That went well...
Scary stuff, I could already tell where this was going when ToT said a cemetery had to be relocated.
I can wait for the station to be rebuilt to look more modern in another 50 years.
(That’s a lie, modern architecture is a plague)
After seeing the video I fully agree. All those rebuildings went from bad to worse, though the last one is, at least, more colorful than the concrete mess they constructed in the sixties.
It has been rebuilt and looks nothing like in these video's
There is another abandoned Jewish cemetery just out of New Street. It's the other side of Islaington Row from Five Ways Station, wedged between the Cross-city line and the old spur that ran to Gas Street. Totally overgrown, until a few years ago you could actually gain access to it but not now. The headstones are interesting, as they have inscriptions in both English and Jewish/Hebrew, with dates showing both ways of calculating the years - AD ('Common era') and the Jewish way - I think it dates from the reestablishment of the Temple. If I'm wrong, can a Jewish reader enlighten me, please?
I believe this is the replacement..,,access from the new road bridge and/oe from rail/canal level below & thro' the closed tunnel which led to the former goods depot off Suffolk St
Jewish years begin with the supposed date of the biblical creation(genesis). So the current Jewish year is 5783, as it has been that many years since creation according to Jewish theology.
Christ that’s another deep tale, I wouldn’t let the residents of Birmingham travel from that station let alone Brum driving near it.
Ghosts my foot. It's all the pollution in that subterranean hell hole making people hallucinate.
BNS is the worst station in the country by miles. I don't think I've ever been there without throwing up due to either excess beer or a migraine from all of the NOx. Or both.
That’s also just like in Poltergeist when that neighborhood was built over a cemetery.
Time to add that to the list of reasons not to go to Birmingham New Street
Wait your going to Birmingham
@@Ramosway2 I was going to Tywyn in July and Birmingham New Street was part of the journey, I got stuck there for 3 or so hours due to a heat wave so hot it caused disruptions to rail services.
The station is alright, it's Birmingham that you have to worry about...
I never thought off digging graves up as shunting but Train people are train people
New streets full of ghost stories as I mentioned on a previous video I was told about the tunnel’s and shown the entrance to them during my princes trust course with Intertrain and because I’m catching the train to and from my local station Chester road I’ve frequently found myself on platform four in the early mornings between 6am and 7am from September of last year right up to February 4th of this year I may not believe as much in ghosts but being in new street just makes me feel off especially those tunnels I wasn’t told the exact story behind them but I felt something drawing me into it when I was shown them and it’s peeked my interest in trying to find out what exactly happened there or the story behind them especially the Mail tunnel
Ah you are from Chester Road - why platform 4 though, the Cross City trains usually depart from platform 8 or 9 and on arrival they usually go into platform 12?
@@LittleKitty22 not entirely sure but whenever we’d come into new street at least once or twice we’d pull into platform 4
@@Erika_Banba Must have been when it's very busy, if there's a late runner and trains are piling up in the bottleneck outside New Street, they put them into any platform. For the passengers this means quickly running across the station! I hate it when they do that.
@@LittleKitty22 same
Still think you should do the Virginia Church Hill tunnel accident of the train and bodies of workers who worked on the tunnel being buried alive after the tunnel collapsed during rebuilding construction. The tunnel was closed off for good after the accident. To this day the train and the bodies of the people who were buried alive are still there. People who have went and visited the tunnel will spot ghosts of the workers there. Since the tunnel is built under a town. A lot of town folk who have their homes built above the tunnel can sometimes hear the streaking moans of men from their homes coming from the tunnel. There is even said that a vampire is also seen near the sight of the tunnel. A lot of fun stories on this case if you do a video on it.
Woah, been to New Street station many times and had no idea that this has happened.
If nothing else, that modern redesign is cursed. Or, at least, I assume that's what's making my eyes bleed...
New street is the second station up the line from where I live.
great ghost story
I was expecting this to be about a cursed aspect of the design or operation of the actual station
New Street station itself (at least the 1960s variant) and the services out of it would drive most people to suicide.
I fear it was more WW2 that did for New Street- my dad has a print of it how it was and i never twigged it was the Same Station, lovely train shed but very dilapidated with bits missing in the 50's, same with lots of stations, you'd think it was planned or somthing...
I had a brainfart, ive read the description like it was a coment, and for a few seconds i didnt realise it
Also btw, big city centers just have corpses underneath, thats the (maybe legit) first rule of city-terrain
It's not haunted or eerie - it's just Birmingham.
Man that ghost would not want to meet the likes of Danny G...
Just imagine an old decrepit steam engine pulls in with a rake of coaches filled with blood & they spill all over the platform
Interesting I Like It
In chinese , 4 could also pronounced as 'death'
And it's still an eye sore, infact that and the library of Birmingham are two of the ugliest buildings in Birmingham
Of course it's in Birmingham
Birmingham New Street has gone from one of the worst stations in the UK to one of the best. Waiting for the Commonwealth Games Bull to land on the concourse in the summer of 2023.
"ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES jACK A DULL BOY!!!!!"
when i take a look at the same station now is super shit back then it looked beautiful
Hey any one play scr because this is IRL BENTON
lolwut? Entertaining nonetheless
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Historically shown before and after exressively talking and showing
1st? (also im the 5th view :)
fascinating story, but why do we still use the yank title TRAIN staion, when brits always called it a RAILWAY station...more transatlantic mangling of our language
Thats life im afraid, people travel, people say what they want, however they want. In my 33 years of living, i have never called it a railway station. Also it has nothing to do with americans.
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More reasons, not to go to Birmingham.
Jj
A Jewish cemetery oh not good
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