Trains from Birmingham New Street

Birmingham New Street has 745 trains timetabled to leave on Wednesday 4 November, run by LNR & WMR, CrossCountry, Avanti West Coast and Transport for Wales, calling at 231 stations between them. The first goes at 05:00 and the last at 00:27.

The rush peaks at 07:00, with 46 departures in the hour.

If you’ve time to kill, the CrossCountry train to Aberdeen takes 7 hours 38. On paper.

New Street opened in 1854. In the 1960s it was rebuilt as a dark concrete box with a shopping centre on top, and in 2003 Country Life readers voted it one of Britain’s biggest eyesores. A rebuild finished in 2015 wrapped it in shiny stainless steel and added a big bright atrium. The platforms are still underneath, in the dark.