Plans lodged for Birmingham station’s £22m Commonwealth Games overhaul

By Jim Dunton2020-01-06T06:00:00

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Associated Architects has lodged plans to transform the railway station that serves Birmingham University. Work is expected to be complete in time for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Its proposals for the stop, on the suburban line heading south-west out of the city, include a new pedestrian bridge over the Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

The practice said the new station would be built adjacent to the existing station that serves the university and would be able to accommodate approximately seven million passengers a year – double the current station’s footfall and many times more than the 400,000-a-year the 1970s stop was designed for.

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