Birmingham Interchange  | |||||
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| Location | Bickenhill,Solihull,Metropolitan Borough of Solihull England | ||||
| Grid reference | SP199839 | ||||
| Platforms | 4 (2island platforms)[1] | ||||
| Tracks | 6 | ||||
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| Opening | 2027–2028 (planned) | ||||
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Birmingham Interchange is a plannedHigh Speed 2 railway station in theMetropolitan Borough of Solihull,West Midlands, England,[2] with construction expected to finish in 2027.[3]
Unlike the city centre basedBirmingham Curzon Street railway station, the interchange station will be aparkway, serving the east side of Birmingham and surrounding urban areas.[4]
The station was designed byArup, with support from Churchman Thornhill Finch, achievingBREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification, the first railway station in the world to do so, with measures to maximise daylight, LED lighting, reusing rainwater from its roof, and air source heat pumps.[5] In June 2021, High Speed 2 invited companies to bid for a £370 million contract to build the station.[6]
Skanska, Unity (a joint venture withSir Robert McAlpine andVolkerFitzpatrick, with support from WSP) andLaing O’Rourke were shortlisted. Laing O’Rourke was subsequently awarded the contract in July 2022 for its detailed design.[7] As of 2025, initial works are ongoing, including the building of a road bridge over the station, and main construction will commence in early 2026.[8]
The station will have 4 platforms, made of two 415m long platform islands. There will also be capacity for through-running services on two centrally placed tracks, leading to a total of 6 tracks. The station structure will be formed by a steel andglulam timber frame, with repeating structural forms on a 9 by 9 grid.[9]
Current service proposals suggest five trains per hour will stop at Birmingham Interchange, in each direction. Journey time from this station to London is planned to be 38 minutes.[4]
A proposed 17 km (11 miles) long branch of theWest Midlands Metro would terminate at this station, connecting it to the local tram network.[10]
The station will be built on a triangular piece of land, surrounded by theM42 motorway,A446 andA45, and will be linked to theNational Exhibition Centre,Birmingham Airport andBirmingham International railway station[11] by apeople mover. The people mover will have a capacity of over 2,100 passengers per hour in each direction in the peak period.[4]
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