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New Street station is 660 yards (600 m) away from Birmingham Moor Street; [83] the city's second busiest railway station. [83] There is a signposted route for passengers travelling between New Street and Moor Street stations which involves a short walk through a bus tunnel under the Bullring shopping centre .
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 ...
Birmingham International is a railway station known by code "BHI" in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands of England, just east of Birmingham. It is on the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line 14 km (8.7 mi) east of Birmingham New Street railway station.
Birmingham New Street Signal Box is a railway signal box in Birmingham, central England.It is situated on the corner of Brunel and Navigation Streets and at the west end of the platforms of Birmingham New Street railway station.
A CrossCountry Class 220 Voyager at Birmingham New Street hub. A large number of railway lines meet at Birmingham New Street railway station, which is a hub of the UK rail network and is the calling point for most intercity services to and from Birmingham. [5]
The extended platforms were opened in time for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in July 2022, and the new buildings were opened on 28 January 2024. [ 10 ] Numerous other facilities within the station were improved, replaced, or expanded.
In 2021–22, the Cross-City Line's 24 stations (excluding New Street) had combined passenger numbers of 12.4 million, [32] The busiest station on the route besides Birmingham New Street is University, with 3.05 million passenger entries and exits, and the least busy station is Alvechurch with 151,042 passenger entries and exits in 2023/24.
The original station was opened on 12 August 1839 [1] by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, a forerunner of the Midland Railway, on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London. Later, in 1842, the B&DJ built a branch to Birmingham, terminating at Lawley Street railway station.