University of Birmingham Railway Station.
In 1978, University station, on the Cross-City Line, was opened to serve the university and its hospital. It is the only university campus in mainland Britain with its own railway station.
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University of Birmingham Railway Station.
West Midlands Railway Class 323 - 323243 - leaves for Birmingham New Street & Lichfield.
In 1978, University station, on the Cross-City Line, was opened to serve the university and its hospital. It is the only university campus in mainland Britain with its own railway station.
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University of Birmingham Railway Station.
West Midlands Railway Class 323 - 323204 - awaits depaeture for Redditch.
In 1978, University station, on the Cross-City Line, was opened to serve the university and its hospital. It is the only university campus in mainland Britain with its own railway station.
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University of Birmingham.
Edgbaston Campus.
West Gate.
Learning Centre, early c21.
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University of Birmingham.
Edgbaston Campus.
Learning Centre, early c21.
Faraday.
By Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA (1924-2005).
Bronze, 2000.
A gift from the artist to mark the Centenary of the University
Located on the West entrance of the University,
near University Station.
Dominating the crest between the Edgbaston campus and the
railway station, Faraday observes the flowing journey of University life, a time of growth, travel and change, but also a time of reflection of the past – and the future. The artist chose to embellish the base of the sculpture with engraved lettering from T.S Eliot’s poem ‘Dry Salvages’, to evoke something of the purpose of the University experience.....
Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;
You are not those who saw the harbour
Receding, or those who will disembark.
Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.
Eduardo Paolozzi was a Scottish artist and prominent influence on what became the Pop Art movement. He was born on 7th March 1924 in Leith, Edinburgh to Italian immigrants, he was sent to Fascist summer camps in Mussolini-era Italy as a boy. He was interned by the British government when Italy became involved in World War II, an experience which had a lasting impact on Paolozzi. He went on to study at University College's Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1944 to 1947. Moving to Paris that same year, he came into contact with many prominent Surrealists and Cubists. Returning to London in 1949, he became friends with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon while teaching at the Central School of Art and Design. Over the following decades, Paolozzi enjoyed widespread success, including being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1989.
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