🅿️ Parking & Transport: Birmingham airport (BHX)

[IanFarquharson]

Hope this is the correct section for this post…… Sort of related to Birmingham and aviation

London northwestern railway plan to do an Hourly service to Manchester airport next summer May 2027
Proposed route

• Birmingham New Street
• Darlaston (new station)
• Willenhall (new station)
• Wolverhampton
• Stafford
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Crewe
• Wilmslow
• Manchester Airport

Declan’s Blog: Direct rail link to Manchester airport proposed for Staffordshire

West Midlands Trains/London Northwestern Railway (LNWR) joined our recent Chamber Transport forum and we were delighted to hear of the company’s aspirations to develop a direct […]

staffordshirechambers.co.uk

Arriva group the ones that control Grand Central plan to 5 trains a day from May 2027
The proposed route is:

• Brighton
• Haywards Heath
• Gatwick Airport
• Redhill
• Guildford
• Wokingham
• Reading
• Oxford
• Banbury
• Warwick Parkway
• Birmingham New Street
• Burton-on-Trent
• Derby
• Sheffield
• Doncaster
• York
• Northallerton
• Darlington
• Durham
• Newcastle

Direct train services from Newcastle to Brighton via Gatwick proposed

If approved, there could be as many as five services per day in each direction, from December 2026

www.independent.co.uk

Albeit it says from December

Only one winner there then and its not BHX !

But joking apart BHX should be all over this as Stoke / Stafford is in our catchment as is Oxford

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Believe we have 2 trains per hour from Oxford one going north east and the other to via Coventry to Manchester piccy

 

[Nethercote2019]

Hi Ian & all
After recently travelling to Euston I did notice at all stations ( except Euston) from Hampton that on the station name signs there was a sticker saying direct trains from here to Birmingham airport
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