Research by TRI Hospitality Consulting said the city could support a 130-bedroom hotel at the station concourse.

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Everyone has a story to tell about the white-collar sarariman who lost his job and then his family, and who now lives in a cardboard box on the station concourse, still reading the financial pages every day.

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Police later recovered part of Mr Taylor's ear from the middle of the station's concourse.

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Shops at the front of the station will be demolished to show off the listed Victorian station entrance, and the Concourse Tower is to be replaced.

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People travelling from Moor Street station and pedestrians on Smallbrook Queensway are now able to reach the new concourse via the new Moor Street pedestrian walkway, which links the east side of the station to the new entrance on Stephenson Street.

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When the station revamp is completed in 2015, the concourse will be three-and-a-half times bigger than the one it has replaced.

BBC: Birmingham New Street station: Concourse opened

At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.

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The underground station closed in April while work was carried out to refurbish the concourse and facilities, making it "lighter and brighter".

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The station foyer is manic, and an indicator board has recently been erected in the middle of the concourse.

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