The Moor Street Station Historical Society successfully preserved this station from being bulldozed by the City Council to make way for the Bull Ring re-development by obtaining a Grade II Listed Building status on the 30th July 1998.
This historic old station (the last railway terminus to be built in Birmingham close by the very first, in Curzon Street) had fallen into disrepair after being closed by British Rail on the 26th September 1987.
After a public meeting on site in March 1998, called by the Birmingham Tyseley Railway Museum a committee was set up and a “The Moor Street Society Historical Society” set up. Its Chairman applied for Grade II Listed status.
Originally the entire site was Listed which included the large area beside and under the station where fresh fruit and vegetables would arrive and be lowered to the trucks and vans waiting to take them to the nearby market.
The developers applied to have this listing lifted and were allowed to demolish the now rare reinforced concrete (using the Hennebique technique) warehouse despite the support of the local MP and the Professor of Constructive Engineering at the University of Birmingham. The Chairman did manage to persuade the architect to remember these arches in the pattern of the brickwork of the retaining wall built alongside the new road built to connect Moor Street with Deritend.
Ironically the station has now been re-furbished to a very high standard for which the City, who originally wished to flatten it, has won prestigious awards.
Were it not for the selfless efforts of the volunteers of TMSSHS there would have been no station left for them to re-furbish.
To this day the efforts of TMSSHS have yet to be recognized.