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⭐ Core Definition: Birmingham New Street railway station

Birmingham New Street, also known as New Street station, is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in Birmingham city centre, West Midlands, England; it is a central hub of the British railway system. The station is a major destination for Avanti West Coast services from London Euston, Preston, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, and West Midlands Trains services from Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston both via the West Coast Main Line. The CrossCountry network centres on New Street, as well as local and suburban services within the West Midlands; these include those on the Cross-City Line between Lichfield Trent Valley, Redditch and Bromsgrove, and the Chase Line to Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley. The three-letter station code is BHM.

The station is named after New Street, which runs parallel to it, although the station has never had a direct entrance from New Street except via the Grand Central shopping centre. Historically, the main entrance was on Stephenson Street, just off New Street. As of 2022, the station has entrances on Stephenson Street, Smallbrook Queensway, Hill Street and Navigation Street.

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Birmingham New Street railway station in the context of Chase Line

The Chase Line is a suburban railway line in the West Midlands region of England. It runs from its southern terminus, Birmingham New Street, to Walsall, and then Rugeley Trent Valley in Staffordshire, where it joins the Trent Valley line. The name of the line refers to Cannock Chase which it runs through at its northern end.

Part of the line, between Birmingham and Walsall, has been electrified since 1966; work to electrify the remaining 15 mile stretch of line between Walsall and Rugeley, was completed in December 2018.

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Birmingham New Street railway station in the context of Cornish Main Line

The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth, crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.

It directly serves Truro, St Austell, Bodmin (by a Parkway station) and Liskeard. It forms the backbone for rail services in Cornwall and there are branches off it which serve St Ives, Falmouth, Newquay and Looe. Directly connected to the South Devon Main Line at Plymouth, the Cornish Main Line also carries direct trains heading toward and in from London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle and Edinburgh.

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Birmingham New Street railway station in the context of Glasgow Central railway station

Glasgow Central (Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu Mheadhain), usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal main line rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. With 25 million passengers in 2023–2024, it is the fifteenth-busiest railway station in Britain and the busiest in Scotland, as well as the third busiest station in the UK outside of London, behind Birmingham New Street and Manchester Piccadilly. The station is protected as a category A listed building.

The station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 1 August 1879 and is one of 20 managed by Network Rail. It is the northern terminus of the West Coast Main Line (397 miles or 639 kilometres north of London Euston). As well as being Glasgow's principal inter-city terminus for services to England, Central also serves the southern suburbs of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, and the Ayrshire and Clyde coasts. The other main station in the city is Glasgow Queen Street, which primarily serves regional and inter-city services to the north of Glasgow. The three letter station code is GLC.

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Birmingham New Street railway station in the context of Cross Country Route

The Cross Country Route is a long-distance railway route in England, which runs from Bristol Temple Meads to York via Birmingham New Street, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds or Doncaster. Inter-city services on the route, which include some of the longest passenger journeys in the UK such as Aberdeen to Plymouth, are operated by CrossCountry.

It is classed as a high-speed line because its sections from Birmingham to Wakefield Westgate and from Leeds to York have a speed limit of 125 mph (200 km/h); however, the section from Birmingham to Bristol is limited to 100 mph (160 km/h) because of numerous level crossings, especially half-barrier level crossings, and the section from Wakefield to Leeds has the same limit because of a number of curves.

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