Case studies
A bigger, better and brighter station for Birmingham
- Birmingham New Street station is an astonishingly three and a half times larger than before, allowing more than 170,000 passengers to pass through each day with ease.
- Accessibility improvements include 15 new lifts, 36 new escalators and better pedestrian links.
- A substantial new shopping centre and John Lewis store is creating 1,000 new jobs.
The biggest programme of improvements to the Midland Mainline since its completion in 1870
- Improvements will be made all the way from London St Pancras to Sheffield.
- The upgrade of the Midland Main Line will bring faster, greener, more reliable journeys.
- A new fleet of bi-mode trains will also mean more seats.
- Electrification of the MML north of Bedford to Kettering and Corby is scheduled to be completed by December 2019.
The National College for High Speed Rail opens two brand new campuses to help shape the future of the UK’s railway industry
- National College for High Speed Rail is dedicated to the future of the UK’s railway industry
- Courses will provide specialist vocational training for the next generation of High Speed 2 (HS2) engineers
- HS2 will employ over 25,000 people during construction of phases One and Two and will create 2,000 apprenticeships
- 8,700 graduate-level engineers are needed per year by rail businesses over the next 10 years
- Training colleges based in Birmingham and Doncaster