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Birmingham International and the proposed HS2
The information on this web page was prepared in 2012. It has not been updated since then and so it may no longer be correct.
Below you can see a map from the Ordnance Survey. After a short while, a coloured line will appear superimposed onto it. This line shows the route of the proposed HS2 near to Birmingham International. The line should be accurate as it is derived from data for the post consultation route that was published by the Department for Transport in January 2012.
This line is coloured red for cuttings, yellow for embankments and blue for viaducts.
The plan is to build an HS2 station called Birmingham International Interchange (BII). On the map it is north of Middle Bickenhill where the long yellow section of the coloured line appears. As you can see it is quite a distance from the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), the existing railway station and the Airport. The plan is to provide a people mover to connect BII with the NEC and the Airport.
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Below there is an image showing a detailed map of Birmingham International Interchange. If you click on the image and then click again, you can see a larger image.
The NEC, the existing railway station and the Airport are to the west which is off the bottom of the map. You can see a pale blue line that starts at the BII and goes off the map at the bottom. This line shows the route of the people mover that will connect BII with the NEC and the Airport.
Credits
The first map on this web page has been generated by www.thehs2.com. The underlying map is provided by OS OpenSpace and this is © Crown copyright and database rights 2012 Ordnance Survey. The generation of the map uses data provided by www.streetmap.co.uk. In order to superimpose an accurate line of the route of the proposed HS2, the map also uses data which was obtained from a shape file provided by the Department for Transport and released with an Open Government Licence.
There's a Department for Transport web site that provides maps of the route. In particular, it provides a PDF that has a map showing Birmingham International Interchange. The second map on this web page is that PDF converted into an image.