The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
University Railway Station’s impressive new buildings open their doors to passengers for the first time this Sunday. With new wider entrances, stairways and exits serving the neighbouring University of Birmingham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, more open space to circulate and wait, lifts to the platforms, a larger ticket office and better customer facilities it will…
Construction work has started on the Birmingham terminus of the HS2 line – a new rail hub that will play a vital role in the long-term economic future of the West Midlands. Curzon Street is a key part of phase one of the high-speed rail project, linking Birmingham and London.
The high profile HS2 rail project has been branded with a red rating and declared “unachievable” by a government watchdog. The beleaguered HS2, which has been bogged down by spiralling costs and serious delays, is once again under a negative spotlight and facing an uncertain future.
Spiralling costs of the HS2 high speed railway project has resulted in a two year delay to the proposed line between Birmingham and Crewe, say officials. The delay is the result of a bid to cut costs as the project spirals from £33 billion to an eye-watering £71 billion.
Birmingham’s New Street station was alive with music from the movies today, thanks to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, who treated commuters to two special pop-up performances to kick off the weekend. Commuters were pleasantly surprised to see the orchestra blasting out popular theme tunes and soundtrack numbers from some of cinema’s most popular…
Mace and Dragados have jointly been awarded the £570m contract to design and build Birmingham’s new city centre HS2 railway station. The £570m deal will see the Mace Dragados joint venture work with HS2 in two phases to finalise the detailed design and then build the Birmingham Curzon Street station.
A group of residents from Sutton Coldfield have adopted the Wylde Green railway station and are working with West Midlands Railway to enhance their local transport hub, making it a place of local pride and community connection by adding arts and landscaping to the environs. The group of volunteers are called ‘Friends of Wylde Green Station’…