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Birmingham New Street Station

Birmingham New Street railway station
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About Birmingham New Street 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, 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, the Chase Line to Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley, and the Camp Hill Line to Kings Norton. The three-letter station code is BHM.

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In 2012, in Birmingham New Street Station, they found a post box that had been covered up for like 50 years or something, and they opened it and there was a load of letters in there that had just been sat there for years.

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Coordinates: 52.4780, -1.8990

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