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HS2 Ltd has been granted planning permission by Birmingham City Council for two viaducts which will take the new high speed railway into Curzon Street Station in the city centre.
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Restoration work on the 183-year-old original station building at Birmingham Curzon Street has ground to a halt.
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The 112-mile-long London & Birmingham Railway (L&BR), engineered by Robert Stephenson, was the first inter-city line to be built into London. The Parliamentary Act authorising its construction was passed on 6 May 1833. At Birmingham it was to connect with the 82 miles Grand Junction Railway (GJR), authorised on the same day.
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Birmingham Curzon Street: The 1837 Birmingham station terminus at Curzon Street, built for the London and Birmingham Railway. The London Euston terminus had Doric columns whilst those at the Birmingham terminus were Ionic. Whi ...
Ewan Crawford 30/06/2004

HS2 Ltd confirmed on May 10 that it had selected a consortium of Mace and Dragados to build the station at Birmingham Curzon Street under a contract worth £570m.
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HS2 and the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) have agreed to work together to deliver the utility diversions required to enable the planned Birmingham Eastside extension to serve the new HS2 Curzon Street Station on its proposed route to Digbeth.
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UK: Birmingham City Council granted planning permission for the Curzon Street High Speed 2 station on April 23. Invitations to tender for the construction contract are to be issued this summer.
The councils report said the design developed by project promoter HS2 Ltd with WSP and Grimshaw Architects was truly world class, and the elegant and (deceptively) simple form of the main station building clearly reads as a railway station and harks back to traditional station architecture, delivering this in a confident and contemporary way.
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Grimshaw has secured planning approval for a new seven-platform High Speed 2 (HS2) station at Curzon Street, central Birmingham.
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Excavations at the former Birmingham Curzon Street station, which is set to be a new station for HS2, exposed the structure thought to date from 1837.
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Birmingham Curzon Street: The signs are good - and there are some mysterious piles of earth. Hopefully, HS2 will call here in a few years. Grab shot from a train coming into New Street on 16th May 2019. I was travelling to the ...
Ken Strachan 16/05/2019

Preparatory work underway at Birmingham Interchange HS2 station site. [The former Birmingham Curzon Street site.]
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Reworked designs of Grimshaw and WSP's proposed High Speed 2 (HS2) station at Curzon Street in Birmingham city centre have been revealed.
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Birmingham Curzon Street: The 1837 Birmingham station terminus at Curzon Street, built for the London and Birmingham Railway. The London Euston terminus had Doric columns whilst those at the Birmingham terminus were Ionic. Whi ...
Ewan Crawford 30/06/2004

Plans for a £200m extension to the Midland Metro light rail system from Wednesbury to Brierley Hill have been handed to Britain's secretary of state for transport, Mr Chris Grayling.

The business case for the 11.2km extension was presented by the mayor of the West Midlands, Mr Andy Street, and Ms Laura Shoaf, managing director of Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), at the House of Commons.

The line will run from Wednesbury, on the existing Birmingham - Wolverhampton route, to Brierley Hill, serving Great Bridge, Horseley Heath, Dudley Port, Dudley town centre, the Waterfront and Merry Hill.

This extension is part of a larger plan to extend the system, which also includes a proposed extension to Wolverhampton interchange and the planned HS2 terminal at Curzon Street in Birmingham.
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Jewellery Quarter: The light rail side of the station at Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter see image [[42485]] with the 13.26 Midland Metro tram to Wolverhampton St. Georges arriving. (there was a 15-minute interval servi ...
Ken Strachan 24/03/2013


Wolverhampton St. Georges: Midland Metro tram 04 arrives at the Wolverhampton St. Georges terminus on an early evening service from Birmingham Snow Hill in June 2011. Although the station was built for two track working, and a ...
Mark Bartlett 08/06/2011


Lodge Road, West Bromwich Town Hall [Tram]: A tram heading for Snow Hill stops on a quiet Sunday evening at Lodge Road. West Midlands Metro
Ken Strachan 09/02/2014

The headquarters for construction of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail line is to be based in Birmingham.
HS2 Ltd, the company responsible for the project, said its new premises would house up to 1,500 staff.
It is expected to include engineers and designers responsible for track, signalling and station plans, as well as support staff.
While some jobs would move from London, the company said, many would be new roles. [From Mark Bartlett]
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Birmingham Curzon Street: The 1837 Birmingham station terminus at Curzon Street, built for the London and Birmingham Railway. The London Euston terminus had Doric columns whilst those at the Birmingham terminus were Ionic. Whi ...
Ewan Crawford 30/06/2004


Birmingham Curzon Street: A future stop for HS2? They'll have to take the boards off the windows first... see image [[22382]]
Ken Strachan 21/07/2011

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