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Geographic map of the Braunston to Birmingham section (zoom in for detail) At Braunston Junction, the Oxford Canal diverges north and south. The north section leads to Rugby and Coventry ; the southward fork carries both the Oxford Canal and the Grand Union for 5 miles (8.0 km) to Napton Junction .
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 ...
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 ...
This canal became part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations in 1846 under the London and Birmingham Railway and Birmingham Canal Arrangement Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. ccxliv). [ 3 ] It was re-established as a body corporate on 17 June 1835.
In 2010, Birmingham Airport's chief executive, Paul Kehoe, stated that HS2 is a key element in increasing the number of flights using the airport, with added patronage by inhabitants of London and the South East, as HS2 will reduce travel times from London to Birmingham Airport to under 40 minutes. [61]
The M40 motorway links London, Oxford, and Birmingham in England, a distance of approximately 89 miles (143 km).. The motorway is dual three lanes except for junction 1A to junction 3 (which is dual four lanes) a short section in-between the exit and entry slip-roads at junction 4 (which is two lanes in both directions) and also between the slip-roads at junction 9 (in the south-eastbound ...
The M6 motorway also connects Birmingham to London (via the M1) and the south, and the north-west of England and Scotland. Junction 6 of the M6 is also one of Birmingham's landmarks, and probably the most notable motorway junction in the UK, Spaghetti Junction, which is officially called the Gravelly Hill Interchange. Other motorways are:
The Birmingham, Bristol & Thames Junction Railway was authorised in 1836 to run from the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR), near the present Willesden Junction station, across the proposed route of the Great Western (GWR) on the level, to the Kensington Canal Basin.