Looking good, New Street station

Sunday September 20 was the official re-opening of New Street station after a £600 million development. As the busiest station in the country outside London, the revamped New Street can handle 300,000 visitors every day, with a train leaving every 37 seconds.

When it was first redeveloped in the 1960s, New Street was uncompromisingly styled and the extensive use of concrete saw the station considered by many to be one of the country's worst eyesores.

Five years after the latest redevelopment started, New Street station is now far more architecturally pleasing, even if some commuters have reservations about how much it might actually improve their travelling experience.

Visually, though, you've gotta admit that it's pleasing to look at. And how cool is it to have our very own Eye of Sauron? Here are some of our favourite pictures from the station's first visitors:

 

A photo posted by Verity Milligan (@vemsteroo) on Sep 20, 2015 at 12:46am PDT

 

A photo posted by Sean Patrick Burns (@shamrock_sean) on Sep 20, 2015 at 10:48am PDT

 

A photo posted by Simon Heydecker-Dent (@smash1ngbbq) on Sep 20, 2015 at 11:42pm PDT

 

A photo posted by David Davies (@daviesda) on Sep 20, 2015 at 1:46pm PDT

 

A photo posted by @instaalle_x on Sep 20, 2015 at 12:17pm PDT

 

A photo posted by Matthew Cochrane (@matcochr) on Sep 20, 2015 at 6:21am PDT

 

A photo posted by Aneesha Parveen (@aneesha_parveen) on Sep 19, 2015 at 1:03pm PDT

 

A photo posted by Lozza Taylor (@onetimetaylor) on Sep 20, 2015 at 9:52am PDT

 

A photo posted by Tim Cornbill (@timcornbill) on Sep 20, 2015 at 5:24am PDT

 

A photo posted by Andrew Kehoe (@ajkehoe) on Sep 4, 2015 at 11:43am PDT

 

A photo posted by @jhalluk on Sep 21, 2015 at 1:04am PDT

Have you taken some great pictures of New Street station that you'd like to share? Let us know.

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