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For travel from Birmingham City Centre to Victoria Coach Station in central London, booking two weeks ahead, Megabus has a range of departures at £5.41 – plus a £1 booking fee that covers ...
This shortened the route between London and Birmingham by 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (29.8 km) compared to the original Oxford route, and reduced the fastest London-Birmingham journey times by 20 minutes (from 140 to 120 minutes); most of the through trains were immediately transferred to the new route, although the original route via Oxford continued ...
The line was officially fully opened on 17 September 1838, with the first passenger train from London to Birmingham arriving that day. The first London-to-Birmingham trains took 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours to complete the 112 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (181.1 km) journey. [7] Camden Town stationary steam engine chimneys and locomotive workshops in 1838 [8]
The DfT initially estimated the cost of the first 190-kilometre (120 mi) section, from London to Birmingham, at between £15.8 and £17.4 billion, [157] and the entire Y-shaped 540-kilometre (335 mi) network at between £30.9 and £36 billion, [158] [157] not including the Manchester Airport station which would be locally funded. [159]
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A new set of high-speed long-distance services was introduced in 1966, launching British Rail's highly successful "Inter-City" brand [25] (the hyphen was later dropped) and offering journey times as London to Birmingham in 1 hour 35 minutes, and London to Manchester or Liverpool in 2 hours 40 minutes (and even 2 hours 30 minutes for the twice ...