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Birmingham New Street - How to rebuild a station
Birmingham New Street’s stunning new look station and Grand Central shopping complex has opened its doors. Scroll down through our microsite for stories and images.
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Epic Birmingham New Street 'shows economic power of infrastructure'
Birmingham New Street’s stunning new look station was completed today with the opening of the Grand Central shopping complex, a project cited by the Chancellor this week as an example of how infrastructure can help reshape local economies.Read more -
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Career story: Chris Montgomery, Network Rail Birmingham New St project director
The overhaul of Birmingham New Street is already a huge success with the public. Chris Montgomery can enjoy the accolades after years of hard work rebuilding the station while that same public walked through his site.Read more -
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Station Masterpiece: Birmingham's rebuilt New Street Station
Technical excellence, flexibility and a collaborative approach were all crucial requirements explains the Atkins’ design team who engineered the award winning Birmingham New Street Station which opens this weekend. Like any epic journey, turning Birmingham’s Read more -
Birmingham New Street
Mace senior project manger Paul Dalton on delivering Birmingham New Street station
Today sees the final completion of the New Street project as the Grand Central shopping centre opens. Senior project manager for Mace Paul Dalton talks about the challenging scheme.Read more -
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Birmingham New Street opening – what they said
Politicians, businessmen and transport experts queued up at the opening of the revamped Birmingham New Street station to sing its praisesRead more -
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Newly opened Birmingham New Street station gives property market a boost
Record investment activity in commercial property underpinned by infrastructure investment in Birmingham.Read more -
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Birmingham New Street station: five years of construction in five minutes
Video: Birmingham’s New Street station has undergone an incredible £750m transformation, which means that the stations can now handle 300,000 passengers per day.Read more -
People & Careers
Career story: Raja Narwari on designing Birmingham New Street
Raja Narwari, practice manager for Atkins rail solutions explains how the firm’s global design centre stepped up to help design the station.Read more
Birmingham New Street - in numbers
170,000 passengers using the station every day
300,000 new daily passenger capacity
37 seconds between trains arriving and departing
1,100 tonnes of steel make up the façade
8,000 stainless steel panels in the facade
36 new escalators installed to improve vertical access to the platforms
3,300 square metres of new atrium, the size of a football pitch
200,000 sq ft of retail space in Grand Central
98% of all material recycled