Aims
The New Street redevelopment is a four and a half year, £550m project that will transform Birmingham’s city centre station. Here are just a few highlights of what will be new at New Street:
- Increased passenger capacity to over 52 million people a year
- Brighter, cleaner and clearer platforms, reached by 42 new escalators and 14 new lifts
- A new 10,500 sq. m. concourse, three and a half times bigger than the current one
- A giant light-filled atrium, roofed with the same material used on the Eden Project
- New, comfortable, airport style waiting lounges
- New and improved pedestrian links to Moore St station and across the city.
- Minimal disruption to passengers with the station remaining fully operational throughout.