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Train times and station information for Birmingham New Street railway station from National Rail; New Street - New Start; Birmingham New Street, on Warwickshire Railways Photographs and information on the Victorian Station. 1890 Ordnance Survey map of the station; Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Birmingham New Street station
The station is managed by Avanti West Coast and is also served by CrossCountry, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Trains. It has five platforms, consisting of two islands and one side platform numbered 1–5 from south to north. The station at platform level. The basic Monday to Saturday off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is as follows:
Site clearance underway in January 2020. Construction is due to be completed in 2028 [2]. At the start of 2019, the site was cleared. As at all HS2 sites, site clearance was followed by an extensive archaeological programme, in this case involving 70 archaeologists, which unearthed what is thought to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse adjacent to the old Curzon Street station.
The site of the station was formerly occupied by Oppenheim's Glassworks. [1] This was demolished, but many parts of the building and machinery are believed to be buried underneath the station and car park, and during recent development work alongside the station the area was designated as a site of archaeological importance by Birmingham City Council.
Birmingham New Street is Birmingham's principal railway station and one of the principal stations of the UK rail network. [1] The station is managed by Network Rail [2] and its main entrance is located on Stephenson Street. New Street is the main gateway for most people arriving in the city and serves most of the city rail services, providing ...
Today's Moor Street station is a combination of the original station, opened in 1909 by the Great Western Railway as a terminus for local trains, and a newer Moor Street station with through platforms, a short distance from the original, which opened in 1987, replacing the original. The two were combined into one station in 2002, when the ...
Curzon Street station continued to be used into the British Rail era as a goods station up until 1966. [10] The platforms, along with the original train sheds, were demolished that same year. [3] For several decades, the site was used as a Parcelforce depot; this was demolished in May 2006. [11] For a time, the site was largely used as a car ...
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