In order to solve the capacity problem therefore, Moor Street station was built at the opposite end of the tunnel to take terminating local trains from the south and relieve traffic.

[1][3] Because the station was built on a confined site, it was equipped with two electrically operated traversers at the buffer end of the platforms as a space saving measure, in order to allow locomotives to move sideways between tracks, instead of having to reverse through crossovers.

From 1975, a regular interval half hourly service was introduced between Moor Street and Dorridge and Shirley.

The low level sheds were equipped with electric traversers to move wagons between the lifts and sidings where they would be loaded and unloaded.

As part of the reopening scheme, a new Moor Street station with through platforms was built at the southern portal of the restored tunnel.

The final train, on 26 September 1987, was a steam special hauled by a locomotive from Birmingham Railway Museum, Clun Castle.

In 1995, the completion of the "Jewellery Line" project north of Snow Hill, meant that through services to Worcester via Stourbridge Junction and Kidderminster were introduced.

By the late 1990s, the former platforms were overgrown and dilapidated,[13] and cracks in the wall were visible from the road side, including some caused by the impact of a runaway bus.

Dr Bernard Juby, a medical practitioner from nearby Yardley, became its Chairman and immediately set about campaigning for the station and its warehousing to be listed.

[7] The inspector from English Heritage had visited the site in 1988 and agreed that both station and warehouses should be Listed, but it took a further 10 years and (with the help of Councillors Sir Stan Yapp and Fred Chapman) a 14,500+ signature petition to Birmingham City Council before the Secretary of State signed it off.

Between 2002 and 2003 the original Moor Street station building and platforms were renovated and restored to a 1930s style at a cost of £11 million.

Further renovations during 2011–12 included the installation of GWR-inspired gilt signage on the front and side elevations of the station building.

Chiltern Railways are engaged in a large-scale redevelopment of their route from London Marylebone to Birmingham with improvements to allow higher speeds.

[32] Plans are being pursued to introduce new services into Moor Street by constructing new rail connections, known as the Bordesley chords linking the station to the Camp Hill line, which is currently mostly used by freight trains.

This would also allow for new local services into Moor Street on the lines from Birmingham to Tamworth and Nuneaton including a new station at Castle Bromwich.

[38] In March 2019, plans were revealed to redevelop Moor Street station which include a new footbridge to link all 6 platforms with the planned HS2 station and two new platforms (5 and 6), this is to get ready for re-routing of services from East Midlands, South West, Worcester and Hereford to Moor Street.

[39][failed verification] On the 26 June 2019, plans were submitted to the Department for Transport to get funding for the £2 billion investment programme known as the Midlands Rail Hub.