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| Birmingham, AL | ||||||||
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| General information | ||||||||
| Location | 1819 Morris Avenue Birmingham, Alabama United States | |||||||
| Coordinates | 33°30′44″N 86°48′26″W / 33.51222°N 86.80722°W | |||||||
| Owned by | CSX Transportation | |||||||
| Line(s) | CSX Boyles Terminal Subdivision | |||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms, 1 in use | |||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||
| Construction | ||||||||
| Parking | More than 100 long term spaces in a nearby City of Birmingham lot | |||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||
| Other information | ||||||||
| Station code | Amtrak : BHM | |||||||
| History | ||||||||
| Opened | 2017 | |||||||
| Original company | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||
| FY 2021 | 14,935 (Amtrak) | |||||||
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Birmingham station is a train station in Birmingham, Alabama, It is a service stop for Amtrak ‘s Crescent, which provides daily service between New York City, Atlanta, and New Orleans, The current station is located on the site of another station originally built by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1960, although Amtrak did not use the building itself, which was torn down in the 2000s.
What train line goes to Birmingham?
London to Birmingham on the West Coast Main Line – Trains from London to Birmingham are operated by Avanti West Coast. Services to Birmingham run along the West Coast Main Line (WCML) – one of the primary railway lines in the UK, connecting London to the West Midlands, North West and Glasgow.
The fastest trains from London to Birmingham take just 1h 22m to reach Birmingham New Street – Birmingham’s central station. Departing from London Euston, you’ll travel on a Class 390 Pendolino train. Standard Class is quiet and comfortable, while First Class is extra spacious. There are plug sockets for every seat in First Class.
There is free WiFi for all passengers on board. Avanti’s Super Voyager trains also run on routes to Birmingham, so you may find yourself boarding one of these instead of a Pendolino. While they’re a bit noisier, Voyagers are still perfectly comfortable – Avanti has even begun the process of renovating the interior of their Voyager fleet.
How to find cheap tickets from London to Birmingham The cheapest way to travel to Birmingham is with a Super Off-Peak Advance Single ticket. Prices vary from ticket to ticket, but the most heavily discounted fares are generally available between 11:00 and 15:00. Prices tend to go up during commuter hours – so if you can spare the time to travel in the middle of the day, you’ll save a few pennies.
There is also a cheaper – but slower – service to Birmingham, operated by Chiltern Railways. This departs from Marylebone and arrives at Birmingham Moor Street, which is also centrally located. Railcards can also save you a third on trains to Birmingham from London.
Can you take Amtrak to Alabama?
There are only three Amtrak stations in Alabama, which are all on the Crescent route that travels between New Orleans and New York City daily. Stations are in the southern part of the state only, with Birmingham the largest city with a station.
Which line is Birmingham International on?
Services – The station is managed by Avanti West Coast and is also served by CrossCountry, Transport for Wales and West Midlands Trains, It has five platforms, consisting of two islands and one side platform numbered 1-5 from south to north. The station at platform level. The basic Monday to Saturday off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is as follows: Avanti West Coast
2tph soutbound to London Euston (1 calling at Rugby, Milton Keynes Central and Watford Junction ). All services call at Coventry,2tph to Birmingham New Street
1tph of which extends northbound to Blackpool North, Edinburgh Waverley or Glasgow Central (alternating each hour) via Wolverhampton and Preston (and Carlisle for Edinburgh and Glasgow services).1tpd to northbound to Shrewsbury via Wolverhampton and Telford Central
At peak times some Avanti West Coast services to/from London Euston start and terminate here. CrossCountry
1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly via Birmingham New Street and Macclesfield 1 tph to Bournemouth, via Coventry and Reading
Transport for Wales
1 tph to Shrewsbury, of which:
1 tp2h continues to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli, after dividing at Machynlleth 1 tp2h continues to Holyhead via Wrexham General and Chester, two evening services instead run to Llandudno (Monday to Friday only, and Manchester Piccadilly, via Warrington Bank Quay, respectively.
At Saturday nighttime one service terminates at Crewe, with the last two Chester-bound services on Sundays running via Crewe to terminate at Chester. West Midlands Trains
4 tph to Birmingham New Street, of which:
2 trains call at Birmingham New Street only, under the London Northwestern Railway brand 2 trains start here and call at Marston Green, Lea Hall and Stechford (1tph calls additionally at Adderley Park ) before continuing to Rugeley Trent Valley via Walsall, under the West Midlands Railway brand
2 tph to London Euston, via Northampton, calling at Hampton-in-Arden, Berkswell, Tile Hill, Canley, Coventry, Rugby, Long Buckby, Northampton, Wolverton, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley, Leighton Buzzard and London Euston (1tph calls additionally at Watford Junction ), under the London Northwestern Railway brand.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coventry | Avanti West Coast London Euston – Edinburgh Waverley / Glasgow Central via Birmingham New Street | Birmingham New Street | ||
| CrossCountry Bournemouth/Reading-Manchester Piccadilly | ||||
| Berkswell | London Northwestern Railway London Euston to Birmingham New Street | |||
| Hampton-in-Arden | ||||
| Terminus | Transport for Wales Birmingham International- Chester / Holyhead | |||
| Transport for Wales Cambrian Line Birmingham International- Aberystwyth / Pwllheli | ||||
| West Midlands Railway Birmingham International- Birmingham New Street | Marston Green | |||
| West Midlands Railway Birmingham International- Rugeley Trent Valley | Marston Green | |||
| Berkswell | West Midlands Railway Coventry to Birmingham New Street | |||
| Preceding station | AirRail Link | Following station | ||
| Terminus | AirRail Link (Formerly Maglev) | Birmingham Airport |
Is there only one train station in Birmingham?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Birmingham station group is a station group of three railway stations in Birmingham city centre, consisting of New Street, Moor Street, and Snow Hill, The station group is printed on national railway tickets as BIRMINGHAM STNS and does not include the international station of Birmingham International, which is located some 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) east of the city centre next to Birmingham Airport and National Exhibition Centre,
Are there two train stations in Birmingham?
Birmingham is one of the main travel hubs of the United Kingdom’s extensive rail network and has links to all other major cities in the country like Liverpool or Manchester, The biggest and most important railway station is centrally located Birmingham New Street Station, The other two stations serving city centre are Birmingham Moor Street Station and Birmingham Snow Hill Station,
Does Alabama have passenger trains?
Restoring passenger rail service between Mobile and New Orleans is the current priority for the Southern Rail Commission, and this project has gained recent momentum with funding secured, and support across the three Gulf Coast states. A secondary priority is the route between Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile.
These cities were formerly served by the Gulf Breeze route that made its final run in 1995. The State of Alabama is currently serviced by one passenger rail line, the Crescent, which serves the cities of Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Anniston, Alabama to New Orleans and to New York City and destinations in between.
Passenger service along the Gulf Coast has been suspended since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina destroyed critical rail infrastructure. The Southern Rail Commission and the federal, state, and local officials in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have been successful in securing millions in funding that will be used to make the major infrastructure and capital investments required to allow Amtrak to move ahead with launching new, regular, reliable passenger service between New Orleans, LA and Mobile, AL, with future expansion envisioned to connect onto Orlando, FL.
- Communities along this route are enthusiastically supportive of passenger rail service which will be a win for the economy, for tourism, for local business, and for all of the residents who will gain a new affordable way to travel the region.
- This new passenger rail will serve the coastal south in a more robust way than the old service ever did, by provide additional connectivity between growing economic centers and the region’s smaller communities, rural areas, and north-south intermodal routes.
It will link visitors, employees and state residents to Gulf casinos, military bases, historic sites, tourist attractions, and colleges. The SRC is working with the Mobile Regional Airport which is underway with a master plan and site selection process that will identify where exactly the station would be located within the Mobile airport, and FAA is anticipated to approve the master plan by the end of 2020.
In 2016, the SRC announced the allocations for more than $2 million in funding through the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to ten communities in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, including the new station at the Mobile Airport, that are underway with planning, upgrading and constructing their rail stations, In May 2019, SRC was awarded a $5.45 million federal grant through the Restoration and Enhancement (R&E) Grants Program that can fund operating expenses for the first and second years of service along the restored rail line. Following that grant, in June 2019, SRC was awarded a $33 million federal grant through the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) program to complete major infrastructure and capital improvements necessary for service restoration. These federal grants also leverage matching commitments from the States of Louisiana and Mississippi and the City of Mobile. In addition, in August 2019, SRC was awarded a $4.36 million federal grant through the Restoration and Enhancement (R&E) Grants Program from FRA to SRC. This federal grant will fund operating expenses for the first year of service along the new rail line and leverages commitments of approximately $1.4 million from the states of Louisiana and Mississippi and the City of Mobile. In 2020, Amtrak is currently underway with a Rail Traffic Controller study modelling the passenger rail service options to be completed in December 2020 which will detail next steps on working with CSX on track improvements. The Southern Rail Commission is committed to working with Amtrak, CSX, and other local partners to overcome all hurdles and ensure the service is implemented. The passenger rail project is supported as a bipartisan effort of the Mayor of Mobile, Sandy Stinson the Mobile City Council along with Gov. Phil Bryant, governor of Mississippi and Gov. John Bel Edwards, governor of Louisiana, former Congressional leaders such as Senator Wicker and Senator Cochran, Senator Shelby and Senator Hyde-Smith, and U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama. Congress created the Gulf Coast Working Group (GCWG) in the 2015 federal transportation reauthorization (the FAST Act) to perform an exhaustive study on restoring the service, which was administered by the FRA. The GCWG Report was completed in July 2017 and in it the GCWG identified the preferred option as restoring service between: 1) New Orleans, LA and Mobile, AL via state-supported train for one daily round trip; and 2) N. New Orleans, LA and Orlando, FL via long-distance train for one daily round trip.
Jacksonville State University’s study found that expanding passenger rail service within the state of Alabama would add thousands of construction and railway operations jobs and increase tourism spending throughout the state. Total economic output on Alabama’s economy is as follows: Construction and Restoration of $1.3 billion (10,800 jobs generated); Railway Operations from $6.3 million to $21.6 million (18 – 61 jobs generated), which is based on low and high end estimates; and Increased Tourism Spending from $22.8 million on low end to $389.2 million (227 – 3,867 jobs generated) on high end. Critical evacuation route from gulf coast cities Provides alternative modes of travel to casinos, conventions, cruise ships, and other tourist destinations Relieves high congestion on highways as more than 5 million people annually visit the beaches of southern Alabama Serves the workforce of growing industries such as gas, petrochemical, aerospace and shipping
The restoration of passenger service between Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama will connect the economic centers of Alabama with other regional resources, and to destinations in eastern and southeastern portions of the United States. The Birmingham to Montgomery corridor would extend from the Amtrak station, which is located within downtown Birmingham’s Intermodal Transportation Terminal, to a proposed station (Montgomery Visitor Center) in Montgomery and to a new station planned at the Mobile Airport.
The Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Jacksonville State University recently conducted an economic impact analysis of expanding passenger rail service within the state of Alabama. The areas under consideration for this study encompass three distinct geographies: from Birmingham to Montgomery in phase I; from Montgomery to Mobile in phase II; and from Atlanta to Birmingham in phase III.
A feasibility study for the Montgomery to Mobile segment was completed by AECOM in June 2020 with three options considered:
Option One: Amtrak service restoration (Gulf Breeze) sharing a track with CSX with an average speed anticipated of 48mph, and capital cost of $345 million Option Two: CSX corridor with an average speed anticipated of 70mph, and capital cost of $1.3 billion Option Three: Interstate 65 alignment on a newly constructed track with an average speed anticipated of 101mph and capital cost of $9.5 billion
The ridership forecast concluded that higher speeds and higher frequencies result in higher ridership. Next steps are conducting further planning and outreach; identifying sponsors; conducting an alternatives analysis; meeting NEPA requirements; final design; funding agreements; right-of-way acquisitions; and construction.
Birmingham has completed enhancements and construction of pedestrian corridor connecting the downtown Intermodal Facility to the Amtrak platform. Anniston has reconstructed the parking area and extended the existing platform at the station. Mobile is working with Mobile Regional Airport which is underway with a master plan and site selection process that will identify where exactly the station would be located within the Mobile airport, and FAA is anticipated to approve the master plan by the end of 2020.
For project overview, click here,
AL Department of Economic & Community Affairs AL Department of Transportation Mobile County Commission Mobile City Council Mobile Regional Airport West Alabama Regional Commission Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham Gulf Coast Planning Commission Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority Port of Gulfport Casino industry Convention and tourism agencies
What is allowed on Amtrak trains?
Each passenger may bring two personal items, 25 lbs. (12 kg) and 14 x 11 x 7 inches each, and two carry-on items, 50 lbs. (23 kg) and 28 x 22 x 14 inches each, onboard. Make sure you have a tag with your name and address on the outside of all your bags.
- Overweight bags must be repacked so they are under 50 lbs.
- Boxes may be purchased at staffed stations to aid in repacking.
- A $20 excess baggage fee will be charged for each carry-on and personal item above the quantity and size limits.
- A maximum of two excess bags are permitted per passenger.
- Fees will be collected at the station or onboard the train if the station is unstaffed.
If checked baggage is available, you can check two bags through to your final destination free of charge. Passengers traveling with infants under the age of two may bring an additional infant item onboard (stroller, diaper bag, etc.), which does not count toward the carry-on baggage or personal item limit.
Is there an alternative to Amtrak?
Amtrak’s competitors and similar companies include Genesee & Wyoming, Norfolk Southern, Canadian National Railway, Kansas City Southern, BNSF Railway, Arriva and Valley Transportation Authority.
Can you take a train from New York to Alabama?
More Questions & Answers – How long is the flight from New York to Alabama? The quickest flight from New York La Guardia Airport to Birmingham Airport is the direct flight which takes 2h 36m. Search flights Where does the New York to Alabama bus arrive? New York to Alabama bus services, operated by Greyhound USA, arrive at Birmingham station.
- More details What is the time difference between New York and Alabama? Alabama is 1h behind New York.
- It is currently 14:06 in New York and 13:06 in Alabama.
- Where does the New York to Alabama train arrive? New York to Alabama train services, operated by Amtrak, arrive at Birmingham station.
- More details Can I drive from New York to Alabama? Yes, the driving distance between New York to Alabama is 1546 km.
It takes approximately 16h 7m to drive from New York to Alabama. Get driving directions Which airlines fly from New York La Guardia Airport to Birmingham Airport? Delta and American Airlines offer flights from New York La Guardia Airport to Birmingham Airport.
How far is Birmingham Coach Station from train station?
The nearest Railway Station is Birmingham Moor Street. Regular services to Birmingham Moor Street include trains from London Marylebone, Stourbridge, Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon. There is step free access at Birmingham Moor Street station. The station is approximately 0.4 miles from the coach station.
What is the largest railway station in Birmingham?
| Birmingham New Street | |
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| The east end of the station, with the newly rebuilt and refurbished building which opened in 2015. | |
| General information | |
| Location | Birmingham, West Midlands England |
| Coordinates | 52°28′40″N 1°53′56″W / 52.47777°N 1.89885°W |
| Grid reference | SP069866 |
| Managed by | Network Rail |
| Transit authority | Transport for West Midlands |
| Platforms | 12 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | BHM |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| Classification | DfT category A |
| History | |
| Original company | London & North Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1 June 1854 | First opened |
| 8 February 1885 | Extension opened |
| 1964–1967 | Rebuilt |
| 2010–2015 | Redeveloped |
| Passengers | |
| 2017/18 | 44.380 million |
| Interchange | 6.870 million |
| 2018/19 | 47.926 million |
| Interchange | 7.074 million |
| 2019/20 | 46.511 million |
| Interchange | 6.994 million |
| 2020/21 | 7.351 million |
| Interchange | 1.024 million |
| 2021/22 | 22.683 million |
| Interchange | 3.509 million |
| Location | |
| Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap | |
| Notes | |
| Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
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, and a central hub of the British railway system, It is a major destination for Avanti West Coast services from London Euston, Preston, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley via the West Coast Main Line, the CrossCountry network, and for local and suburban services within the West Midlands ; this includes those on the Cross-City Line between Lichfield Trent Valley, Redditch and Bromsgrove, and the Chase Line to Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley,
- The three-letter station code is BHM.
- The station is named after New Street, which runs parallel to the station, although the station has never had a direct entrance except via the Grand Central shopping centre.
- Historically, the main entrance to the station was on Stephenson Street, just off New Street.
As of 2022, the station has entrances on Stephenson Street, Smallbrook Queensway, Hill Street and Navigation Street. New Street is the fifth busiest railway station in the UK and the busiest outside London, with 46.5 million passenger entries and exits between April 2019 and March 2020.
It is also the busiest interchange station outside London, with just over 7 million passengers changing trains at the station annually. In 2018, New Street had a passenger satisfaction rating of 92%, the third highest in the UK. The original New Street station opened in 1854. At the time of its construction, the station had the largest single-span arched roof in the world.
In the 1960s, the station was completely rebuilt. An enclosed station, with buildings over most of its span and passenger numbers more than twice those it was designed for, the replacement was not popular with its users. A £550m redevelopment of the station named Gateway Plus opened in September 2015; it includes a new concourse, a new exterior facade and a new entrance on Stephenson Street.
How much is Amtrak from Birmingham to New Orleans?
Information on this train trip
| Daily Trains | 1 |
|---|---|
| Earliest and Latest Train Departures | 1:03PM |
| Minimum Price | $25 |
| Average Ticket Price | $27 |
| Minimum Trip Duration | 7h59m |
Does Birmingham have a train station?
Birmingham New Street – Birmingham New Street is Birmingham’s principal railway station and one of the principal stations of the UK rail network. The station is managed by Network Rail and its main entrance is located on Stephenson Street. New Street is the main gateway for most people arriving in the city and serves most of the city rail services, providing links all across the United Kingdom.
Does Birmingham Airport have a rail station?
By Train – Birmingham Airport is directly connected to Birmingham International Station by a free ‘Air-Rail Link’ system. The air-rail link takes two minutes to get to the station. More Information