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In 1846, the LNWR had obtained an act of Parliament, the London and Birmingham Railway (New Street Station) Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. ccclix), to extend their line into the centre of Birmingham, which involved the acquisition of some 1.2 hectares (3 acres) of land and the demolition of around 70 houses in Peck Lane, The Froggery, Queen Street ...
Platform 4 for services from North Wales to Manchester. The platforms are not bidirectional, except that the slow line between the station and Winwick Junction, some 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) to the north. This allows northbound departures from platform 1. The present platform 4 was numbered 5 for many years, because there was to be a north ...
Number of platforms Interchange systems Image 1: London Liverpool Street: 94.449 80.448: London: ... Birmingham New Street: 33.335 30.726: Birmingham: West Coast Main ...
A direct and regular train service is in operation between Moor Street and Snow Hill through a tunnel, and since mid-2016 the Midland Metro provides a link between Snow Hill and New Street. [9] Birmingham New Street and Moor Street are close to the major shopping centres in the city including Grand Central (formerly known as The Pallasades) and ...
All services from Platform 1 stop at Birmingham New Street with an average journey time of around 7 minutes. Services from this platform include: On Mondays to Saturdays: West Midlands Railway: 5 trains per hour (tph) run northbound to Birmingham New Street. Of which:
Speed restrictions through Bicester North were raised to permit 100-mile-per-hour (160 km/h) running, with a new 'up' alignment and platform. Two of the original terminal platforms at Birmingham Moor Street were reopened for Chiltern services in December 2010.
The station was designed by the architect Ray Moorcroft and opened on 26 January 1976; [1] it has regular train services to many parts of the country. It was named Birmingham International after the adjacent airport, which had at the time that name but is today called simply Birmingham Airport. A large space under the overbridge next to the ...
Work on the reopening of the intermediate stations on the Camp Hill line began in autumn 2022, and the stations had been due to open by the December 2023 timetable change, with two services per hour along the line, [18] giving Kings Norton six trains an hour to Birmingham New Street once again, a practice that was paused because of reduced ...