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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 ...
The station opened in 1849 as part of the Birmingham and Gloucester mainline to Birmingham Camp Hill terminus (later to Curzon Street). In 1852 the stationmaster, Thomas Clark, was fined 50s (equivalent to £343 in 2023) [2] for causing a collision. He allowed a goods-train on the line when an express train was due, and used defective signal lamps.
This is a free timetable leaflet distributed in express train and has information about the departure, arrival time of the train and connecting services. For many years the “Kursbuch Gesamtausgabe” ("complete timetable"), a very thick timetable book, was published but its contents are now available on the Deutsche Bahn website [ 9 ] and CD ROM.
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 ...
Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 1.030 million 0.329 million 0.397 million Five Ways: 1885 [35] Birmingham 1 West Midlands Trains 2.497 million 1.171 million 1.459 million Four Oaks: 1884 [36] Birmingham 5 West Midlands Trains 0.805 million 0.377 million 0.498 million Gravelly Hill: 1862 [37] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.912 million 0. ...
Longbridge station in August 1979, still incomplete; it had opened the previous year. Two previous stations serving Longbridge have existed. The first was opened at a location just south of the current station, in either 1840 or 1841, when the original Birmingham and Gloucester Railway opened; it did not prosper and closed in 1849.
The Chiltern Main Line is a railway line which links London and Birmingham (Moor Street and Snow Hill) on a 112-mile (180 km) route via High Wycombe, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington Spa and Solihull in England.
The Cross-City Line is a suburban rail line in the West Midlands region of England.It runs for 32 mi (51 km) from Redditch and Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, its two southern termini, to Lichfield, Staffordshire, its northern terminus, via Birmingham New Street, connecting the suburbs of Birmingham in between.