# Birmingham Interchange

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Future railway station in England

Birmingham Interchange Planned location General information Location Bickenhill, Solihull England Grid reference SP199839 Platforms 4 (2 island platforms)[1] Tracks 6 History Opening 2027–2028 (planned) Location

High Speed 2 Legend As of October 2023 to Liverpool, Glasgow & Edinburgh Handsacre Junction West Coast Main Line Snow Hill lines Birmingham New Street Birmingham Curzon Street Birmingham Moor Street Birmingham International Birmingham Interchange West Coast Main Line Old Oak Common Euston pedestrian walkway to St Pancras International interchange with National Rail at all stations Original plan, pre-2021 Northern Powerhouse Rail Manchester Piccadilly Leeds to East Coast Main Line to York & Newcastle West Coast Main Line to Liverpool, Glasgow & Edinburgh Midland Main Line Manchester Airport High Speed Classic-compatible loop Sheffield Crewe Chesterfield Classic-compatible loop East Midlands Hub Handsacre Junction to Nottingham, Derby & Leicester West Coast Main Line Phase 1 ╲ Phase 2 boundary Snow Hill lines Birmingham New Street Birmingham Curzon Street Birmingham Moor Street Birmingham International Birmingham Interchange West Coast Main Line Old Oak Common Euston pedestrian walkway to St Pancras International interchange with National Rail at all stations This diagram: view talk edit

**Birmingham Interchange** is a planned [High Speed 2](/source/High_Speed_2) (HS2) railway station in [Solihull](/source/Solihull).[2] Construction is expected to finish in 2027.[3]

Unlike the city centre based [Birmingham Curzon Street railway station](/source/Birmingham_Curzon_Street_railway_station), this will be a [parkway](/source/Park_and_ride) station, serving the east side of Birmingham and surrounding urban areas.[4]

## History

The station was designed by [Arup](/source/Arup_Group), with support from Churchman Thornhill Finch, achieving [BREEAM](/source/BREEAM) ‘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, HS2 invited companies to bid for a £370 million contract to build the station.[6]

[Skanska](/source/Skanska), Unity (a joint venture with [Sir Robert McAlpine](/source/Sir_Robert_McAlpine) and [VolkerFitzpatrick](/source/VolkerFitzpatrick), with support from WSP) and [Laing O’Rourke](/source/Laing_O%E2%80%99Rourke) 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 four platforms, made of two 415 m-long (1,362 ft) platform islands. There will also be capacity for through-running services on two centrally placed tracks, leading to a total of six tracks. The station structure will be formed by a steel and [glulam](/source/Glulam) timber frame, with repeating structural forms on a nine by nine grid.[9]

## Services

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]

## Transport links

A proposed 17 km (11 miles) long branch of the [West Midlands Metro](/source/West_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 the [M42 motorway](/source/M42_motorway), [A446](/source/A446) and [A45](/source/A45_road), and will be linked to the [National Exhibition Centre](/source/National_Exhibition_Centre), [Birmingham Airport](/source/Birmingham_Airport) and [Birmingham International railway station](/source/Birmingham_International_railway_station)[11] by a [people mover](/source/HS2_automated_people_mover). The people mover will have a capacity of over 2,100 passengers per hour in each direction in the peak period.[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-DftMap_1-0)** ["Birmingham International Interchange Station - drawing number HS2-ARP-00-DR-RW-05303"](http://assets.dft.gov.uk/publications/hs2-maps-20120110/hs2arp00drrw05303issue2.pdf) (PDF).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Station designs unveiled for HS2 route"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-45795254). *BBC News*. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Interchange"](https://www.hs2.org.uk/building-hs2/stations/interchange/). *HS2*. Retrieved 13 November 2024.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-HS2_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-HS2_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-HS2_4-2) ["HS2 Phase One full business case"](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-phase-one-full-business-case). *www.gov.uk*. Department for Transport. 15 April 2020. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200419044453/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-phase-one-full-business-case) from the original on 19 April 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Arup designed HS2 Interchange Station becomes first railway station in world to achieve top sustainability certification"](https://www.arup.com/en/news-and-events/hs2-interchange-station-becomes-first-railway-station-to-achieve-sustainability-certification). *www.arup.com*. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Duggan, Jamie (13 June 2021). ["Tender open for new £370m HS2 Interchange Station in the Midlands"](https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/06/tender-open-for-new-370m-hs2-interchange-station-in-the-midlands.html). *RailAdvent*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210613230900/https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/06/tender-open-for-new-370m-hs2-interchange-station-in-the-midlands.html) from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Hakimian, Rob (11 July 2022). ["Laing O'Rourke wins £370M HS2 Interchange station job"](https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/laing-orourke-wins-370m-hs2-interchange-station-job-11-07-2022/). *New Civil Engineer*. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["HS2 Solihull: 15 Bridge Beams Installed at Interchange Station"](https://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/articles/hs2-solihull-15-bridge-beams-installed-interchange-station).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["HS2 Interchange Station: An exemplar project for integrating safe by design principles"](https://learninglegacy.hs2.org.uk/document/hs2-interchange-station-an-exemplar-project-for-integrating-safe-by-design-principles/). *HS2 Learning Legacy*. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["East Birmingham to Solihull Metro Extension – Midland Metro Alliance"](https://metroalliance.co.uk/projects/east-birmingham-solihull-extension/). Retrieved 30 July 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Department for Transport (11 March 2010). [*High Speed Rail - Command Paper*](http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/cm78/7827/7827.pdf) (PDF). [The Stationery Office](/source/The_Stationery_Office). p. 118. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-10-178272-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-10-178272-2). Retrieved 13 March 2010.

v t e High Speed 2 Infrastructure Aston Church Road Overbridge Automated people mover Balsall Common Viaduct Bromford Tunnel Chiltern Tunnel Colne Valley Viaduct Euston Tunnel Marston Box Rail Bridge Northolt Tunnel Rolling stock Small Dean Viaduct Thame Valley Viaduct Turweston Green Bridge Washwood Heath depot Willesden Logistics Hub Wendover Dean Viaduct Places affected Bodymoor Heath Training Ground Calvert Jubilee Chiltern Hills Colne Valley Regional Park Cubbington Woods Curzon Gate Euston Downside Carriage Maintenance Depot Fox and Grapes, Birmingham Jones' Hill Wood Square One Wendover Reception Support Opposition Stop HS2 Stations New/New high speed rail section Birmingham Curzon Street Birmingham Interchange Old Oak Common Manchester Airport High Speed Manchester Piccadilly High Speed London Euston Existing Carlisle Chesterfield Crewe Darlington Edinburgh Waverley Glasgow Central Haymarket Lancaster Leeds Lockerbie Macclesfield Motherwell Oxenholme Lake District Penrith Preston Runcorn Sheffield Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Warrington Bank Quay Wigan North Western York Cancelled East Midlands Hub Heathrow Hub Related high speed projects High Speed 1 High-speed rail in the United Kingdom HS4Air Northern Powerhouse Rail UK Ultraspeed

v t e Rail infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom Current projects Projects East West Rail (Oxford to Bedford section) Henbury Loop Line High Speed 2 Northern Hub Northern Powerhouse Rail (Hull–Liverpool) South Wales Metro West Midlands Metro extension to Brierley Hill Electrification Borders Railway East Kilbride Enhancement Transpennine Route Upgrade Stations Balgray Beam Park Birmingham Curzon Street Birmingham Interchange Bristol Brabazon Butetown Elland Okehampton Interchange Old Oak Common White Rose Winslow Wixams Proposed projects Projects Aberdare–Hirwaun Line reopening Aberdeen Crossrail Bakerloo line extension Barrow Hill line reopening Bristol Airport Rail Link Brentford branch line reopening Bolton–Bury line reopening Bordon Light Railway reopening Carmarthen–Aberystwyth line reopening Cirencester branch line reopening Consett–Newcastle line reopening Coventry Very Light Rail Cranleigh line reopening Crossrail 2 (London) Crossrail Glasgow Darlaston Loop reopening Parts of Electric Spine (including Coventry–Leamington Spa Coventry–Nuneaton Leamington Spa–Aynho Junction) Bedford–Cambridge reopening Fawley branch line reopening Fleetwood branch line reopening Formartine and Buchan Railway reopening Maid Marian line reopening MetroWest (Bristol) Hall Farm Curve reopening Heathfield Branch Line reopening Heathrow Airport transport proposals including Heathrow Airtrack Heathrow Southern Railway Heathwick Western Rail Approach to Heathrow Leicester–Burton upon Trent line reopening Lisburn–Antrim line reopening Cowley branch line reopening North and West London Light Railway Northern Powerhouse Rail North Wales Metro Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway reopening Ringwood branch line reopening R25 Orbital Skelmersdale branch reopening Skipton–Colne Rail Link Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway reopening South Staffordshire line reopening Southern Crossrail St Andrews Rail Link Sutton Link Sutton Park line reopening Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro Walsall–Wolverhampton line reopening Wealden Line (Uckfield–Lewes reopening) West London Orbital Wisbech line reopening York–Beverley line reopening Stations Armagh Allandale Aldergrove Aldridge Arthington Ashley Hill Ashton Gate Balsall Heath Barcombe Mills Beechwood Beeston Castle and Tarporley Beith North Bonnybridge Bordon Bradford St James Bramley Broughton (Flintshire) Brownhills Brentford Golden Mile Brinsford Parkway Burgess Park Caerleon Camberwell Cambourne (Cambridgeshire) Canterbury Parkway Cardiff Parkway Carno Carr Mill Carterton Castlethorpe Castle Bromwich Castle Green Charfield Cheadle Chipping Sodbury Claydon Cottam Parkway Corsham Cranleigh Cross Hills Crwys Road Cullompton Cwm Dalston Deeside Parkway Devizes Parkway Ditton Drake Street East Midlands Hub Eastriggs Edwinstowe Ely Mill Eynsham Errol Ferryhill Finningley Fleetwood Fort Parkway Fraserburgh Gabalfa Glasgow Airport Glasgow Cross Glencarse Gloucestershire Parkway Gorbals Greenfield (Flintshire) Hatch End Haxby Heathrow Hub Heathfield Henbury Hirwaun Horfield Horsforth Woodside Hythe Hythe Road Isfield King's Road Chelsea Ladbroke Grove Langport and Somerton Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway Leeds New Lane Liverpool Baltic Lisburn West Llanwern Long Ashton Maiden Lane Manchester Airport High Speed March Elm Road Meir Monkerton Moorside Mouldon Hill Newbiggin-by-the-Sea Newport West Newport West Central Newton Longville Old Kent Road Old Oak Common Lane Oxford Science Park Oxford Business Park Ollerton Park Farm Pelsall Peterhead Pill Portishead Portobello Poyle Richhill Roseberry Parkway Rugby Parkway Rushden Parkway Saltford Sharnal Street / Hoo Silvertown Skelmersdale Slattocks St Anne's Park St Clears Stanley Park Stockingford Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Surrey Canal Thamesmead Templepatrick Tempsford Thornhill (Dumfries) Thornton Thorpe Park Torquay Gateway Town Meadow Vauxhall (Merseyside) Wantage Road Warsop Waverley Weedon Wellington Winchburgh Witney Woodchurch Woodhorn Wootton Bassett Wormit Wrexham North Wrexham South Heritage railways Don Valley Railway Norfolk Orbital Railway Wisbech and March Bramley Line Honeybourne Line Cancelled projects Projects Advanced Passenger Train Bordesley to Birmingham Curzon Street Camden Highline Cardiff to Swansea electrification Central Line extension to Richmond Central Line Extension to Denham Chessington branch line (never completed) Cranbrook and Tenterden Light Railway Cromarty and Dingwall Light Railway Croxley Rail Link Docklands Light Railway extension to Dagenham Dock Dawlish Avoiding Line Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (never completed) East Sussex Light Railway Edinburgh Airport Rail Link Electric Spine Oxford-Bletchley/Bedford Electrification Glasgow Airport Rail Link Hawkhurst branch line (never completed) Hebridean Light Railway Company Heathrow Airport transport proposals Heathrow Airtrack HS4Air Headcorn and Maidstone Junction Light Railway Highclere, Kingsclere and Basingstoke Light Railway InterCity 250 Kingsbridge to Salcombe Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (never completed) Leeds and York Railway Mid-Suffolk Light Railway (never completed) Nightstar (train) North Holderness Light Railway Ouse Valley Railway Picc-Vic tunnel Regional Eurostar Robertsbridge & Pevensey Light Railway St Germans & Looe Railway (never completed) Superlink (railway network) Tees Valley Metro UK Ultraspeed Windsor Link Railway York and North Midland Railway (Leeds Extension) York, Hull and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway Stations Barrhead (New) Brierdene Cassiobridge Collywell Bay Crowlands Doncaster Sheffield Airport Doncaster (York Road) Dykebar Ferguslie Glenfield Lullingstone Paisley East Queens Road (GER) Richboro Port Stanely Swithland Sykehouse Thorpe-in-Balne Watford Vicarage Road West Hampstead interchange Windsor Royal Proposed projects category Cancelled projects category

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